Over two centuries Bharatanatyam has evolved from a highly codified style to one affording the maximum freedom to innovate. The journey of the dance from the temple to the proscenium is a fascinating story. No other form has traversed such a long distance without losing its original content and yet being a sparkling example of creative evolution in terms of material, music, costume, etc. Bharatanatyam today ranks as a major cultural symbol of India. The heritage, ...
After Tirumala-Tirupati Shirdi is the most visited pilgrim place in India today. From a small hamlet, just a little over a hundred years ago, it has grown to a huge centre of pilgrimage. The saint who put Shirdi on the World Map is Sai Baba. Sai Baba had no formal name, no family to which his origins could be traced and no lineage to which he can be ascribed. He left no order, no direct disciples or dogma and has no incarnation. Most importantly, he also did not ...
India dances to the rhythms of a million rural feet. With no formal training in dance, unaware of classical traditions, the innocent dancers of the villages dance because they must. A happy, vigorous ode to life and living. The richness and variety, expanse and extent of the country’s folk-dance forms are captured in this book, in all their entirety. Several unknown forms-some on the verge of extinction-have been featured, as a record of the last century, a ...
1. The year 2006: Narthaki. 2. Books in 2006: the editor. 3. Chaitra Parva/Mohan Khokar. 4. Manipuri evolution/Sruti Bandopadhya. 5. Manipur wedding/Singhajit Singh. 6. Whither Satriya?/Mallika Kandali. 7. Kaal Chakra/Shanta Serbjeet Singh. 8. Off track!: from files. 9. Bandha Nritya/Aloka Kanungo. 10. Orissi or Odissi?: the editor. 11. Obituaries: Narthaki. 12. Keshav Kothari/Ambika Panikar. 13. N.K. Sivasankaran: the editor. 14. Padmini/Pushpa Narayan. 15. ...