Indian Classical Dance – Thought a critic’s Eye is a selection of 36 articles written by the renowned dance critic Smt Leela Venkataraman. Published in new papers, periodicals and dance maganxines including The Hindu, Sruti, among others, these articles attempt to offer a peek into the changing world of Indian Dance. These articles are an effort to record the various events, institutions and personalities that have inffuenced and enriched the legancy of Indian Dance form. These articles, spanning across three decades, take the reader on a tour of Indian Dance history in a lively, and engaging manner.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leela Venkataraman
Leela Venkataraman’s career as a writer on dance began as the Dance Critic for the National Herald in 1980, after which she was with another daily, The Patriot. Selected as the Dance Critic for The Hindu when the paper began its Delhi edition fifteen years ago, she has been with the paper ever since, her Friday Review column earning a reputatioin for being the most incisive commentary on the dance scene in the capital. Widely traveled in India and abroad, she has participated in seminars and dance events like the international Seminar on Bharatanatyam in the Diaspora in Chicago, the North American Internationial Dance Seminar in Houston in 2001, the Binnels de is Danse at Lyons in 2000 and the Rukmini Devi festival in Malaysia. Leela Venkataraman has written extensively for journals in India and abroad, and is on the Delhi Bureau of SRUTI, a monthly journal published from Chennai. She was also on the Board of Management of the Kalakshetra Foundation for a full term. Among her publilcations are Bharatanatyam – Step by step and A Dancing Phenomenon – Birju Maharaj.
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