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Aijaz Ilmi
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The writer is a national spokesperson of the BJP
    Shovana Narayan performs in Yudhishtar and Draupadi.Entertainment
    Sharing the world through dance

    Certainly one of the most enthusiastically anticipated of international days is the April 29th World Dance Day.

    2 May 2016 7:13 PM

    Challenges for classical Indian danceEntertainment
    Challenges for classical Indian dance

    What are the challenges for Indian classical dance forms sustaining their place in today’s world

    18 April 2016 9:36 PM

    Odissi guru Ramani Ranjan JenaEntertainment
    Remembering Guru Ramani Ranjan Jena

    Sadly, a renowned guru of Odissi, Ramani Ranjan Jena, passed away recently. The intangible heritage of classical Indian...

    4 April 2016 9:50 PM

    Kathak dancers and Belgium’s Theatre Tol perform at Trafalgar Square.Entertainment
    Impact of performance space on dance

    Every dance performance exists in space and time with its unique energy and motion. The space of the performance, its...

    21 March 2016 9:35 PM

    Tiger dance in OrissaEntertainment
    What is folk dance actually

    In India a common distinction between classical and folk dance uses the Natya Shastra’s terms of Margi and Desi.

    7 March 2016 7:06 PM

    Odissi makeup and ornamentsEntertainment
    Aharya — Costume, makeup and ornaments in Odissi dance

    Odissi dance, like the other classical genres of India, gives great importance to the costume, ornamentation and makeup...

    23 Feb 2016 12:13 AM

    The panellists at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry conference.Life
    Dance, culture and development

    Two dancers, two visual artists and the president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry formed an...

    8 Feb 2016 7:18 PM

    Art Without Frontiers: Indian arts on the moveLife
    Art Without Frontiers: Indian arts on the move

    After the impact of the first Foreign Artists Festival/Videshi Kalakar Utsav in 1990 in establishing the idea that...

    25 Jan 2016 6:47 PM

    Sadhana SrivastavaEntertainment
    Please enjoy the rest of the evening

    Warning, this column is lighthearted rant about something that grates on serious concertgoers.

    12 Jan 2016 12:49 AM

    Restoring spirituality to devadasi traditionsLife
    Restoring spirituality to devadasi traditions

    Restoring spirituality to devadasi traditions We contextualize classical Indian dances as evolving over the millennia as...

    5 Jan 2016 12:26 AM

    Ramli Ibrahim performs OdissiLife
    An ode to Videshi Kalakar Utsav

    Some years ago, Vinod Mehta, the then dynamic editor of Outlook magazine, told me he’d received a call from a...

    22 Dec 2015 1:04 AM

    Antonia Minnecola, Zakir Hussain, Faisal and other family members with Sharon Lowen.Life
    Sustaining Sitara Devi’s legacy

    It was a rare treat to experience the delightful rasa of Sitara Devi’s Kathak through her senior disciple Antonia...

    8 Dec 2015 12:42 AM

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