Tags : Sangeet Natak Akademi

ASHISH KHOKAR HERITAGE & CULTURE

RAJ AND SWARAJ

As Independence Day approaches, I’m reminded of Swaraj is my birthright slogan. Today it has a totally new meaning: I ,me, myself. Tilak, Bal (nothing childish about him) Gangadhar was a Puneite. Well, that’s how we remember him even if he was born in Bombay he was brought up in Pune. Growing up in Punjab […]Read More

ASHISH KHOKAR HERITAGE & CULTURE

Jolly Grant!

Summer is here! You can see in wilting flower beds, the paper-like poppy petals slowly falling off and  insects being out in full force! Makhi, Machchar, maha-ugly cockroaches in Hindi called Tilchitta. Did you know that? As kids growing up in the Capital city in the 1960s, we were taken by our parents to almost […]Read More

ART & ARTISTES SANDIP SOPARRKAR

Dance guru Mandakini Trivedi announces three-year free scholarship in Mohini

She is extremely soft spoken, graceful, elegant and dignified which beckons to know this sophisticated Mohini Attam dance guru Mandakini Trivedi. To popularise and to take the art of Mohini Attam to dancers and dance enthusiasts all over the world, she recently announced a three-year free intensive training scholarship program in the dance form, a […]Read More

ART & ARTISTES

Ashwani Chopra: Candid Photo Artist

Ashish Khokar A for amiable. C for camaraderie. Ashwani Chopra was a jovial, happy, helpful, happening photographer who served Delhi’s art field, selflessly. Pay him, don’t pay him but he continued to smile. He always had a good word for most. Came to halls to take photos of dancers and musicians unobtrusively. Others do drama, […]Read More

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