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Friday 15 December 2023
Article - Harmony in Strings and Equations: Unravelling the mathematical beauty of veena - Dr. Sahana Prasad
Thursday 14 December 2023
UNbox and outta box! - Dance Matters: Column by Ashish Mohan Khokar
NADAM made sense despite that and for three days brought a dance palette of taste and substance. On day one were the popular local razz-m-tazz Kathak duo Nirupama and Rajendra. Day two was Odissi from the soil by Meera Das group and G. Narendra solo. Day three was Mohiniattam by Sunanda Nair, then Kathak by Nadam ensemble and Bharatanatyam by Poornima Ashok....
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Friday 8 December 2023
Article - The music of the Geeta Govinda - Dr.Ileana Citaristi
(Excerpt from: I. Citaristi, Odissi and the Geeta Govinda, New Delhi, Manohar Publisher, 2022)
The first English translation of the Geeta Govinda to appear in the West was the one published by Sir William Jones in 1792. In the preface to the book he writes:
"When I first read the songs of Jayadeva who has prefixed to each the names of the mode in which it has to be sung, I had hoped to procure the original music, but the pundits of the South referred me to those of the West and the Brahmans of the West would have sent me to those of the North while they of Nepal and Kashmir declared that they had no ancient music but imagined that the notes of the Geeta Govinda must exist if anywhere, where the poet was born."
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Interview - Raja Reddy: We merge originality with traditional forms - Tapati Chowdhurie
Sitting in the well-equipped library of his dance institution Natya Tarangini - running for the last 47 years - in Pushp Vihar in New Delhi, this writer had the rare opportunity of interviewing Raja Reddy, the doyen of Kuchipudi dance.
Read the interview in the site
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Monday 4 December 2023
Book Review - Courting Hindustan: The Consuming Passions of Iconic Women Performers of India - Dr. Ragothaman M. Yennamalli
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Sunday 3 December 2023
Article - Mandala Nritta: Techniques of staging war sequences based on Naṭyashastra - Dr. Nancy Abraham
The Naṭyashastra encompasses all that belongs to the Indian tradition of art and aesthetics. It is a Sanskrit treatise on performing arts. The study of Indian art and culture derived through various layers such as theory and its application, oral and textual tradition, ethics and aesthetics, classics and folks (Margi and Desi tradition).
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Saturday 2 December 2023
Profile - Vija Vetra: A century of dance - Prakhar Bajpai
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Friday 1 December 2023
Anita says...December 2023
Where do stories come from?
They come from other storiesFrom deep within ourselves and from the cave of memories
Stories bind us and release our imaginations to swoop and soar
- Author SALMAN RUSHDIE award acceptance speech, Germany
We ask that same question each December!
"Where did the year go?"
"What? Already?"
"Gosh! How time flies!"
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