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A Century of Indian Dance was culled, collated and curated to be presented by ICCR as part of the international expo...

Everyone loves to talk about the 'good old days' and say how wonderful things were in the past.  But change is ...

Methil Devika received her initial tutelage in dance at the age of four from Melattur S Natarajan, a disciple of ...

Though my guru, the late Dr. K Venkatalakshamma, was not born in a Devadasi family, she was appointed as a temple ...

When Dr. Mulk Raj Anand had invited me to edit the volume on Bharatanatyam in the early seventies, I had visited Mysore ...

After her marriage, Jayalakshmi Alva moved to Mumbai from Ahmedabad (where she taught at Darpana) teaching several young dancers at Bhulab...

My daughter took Bharatanatyam lessons from this teacher. She claimed to have learned dance from someone in Kerala. The classes went ok. ...