Tweet Aes The dance and music season is a time to soak in culture. But often one has to ask whose culture or what culture it is. To me as...

Tweet Following Carnatic singer TM Krishna’s recent comments about the Tamil Brahmin community’s social acceptance of MS Subbalaksmi,...

Tweet As this was an article I wrote exclusively for the SDHS (Society of Dance History Scholars) convention and has been published by...

Tweet Sikkil Vedavalli and Kottanarvitu Pappa dressed to perform Parsi dance (Photo courtesy: Permanent black) Notions of “classical” in...

Tweet At 5 am at Santa Monica listening to kambhoji and traveling to UCLA to deliver a lecture The fact that I have chosen to audit the...

Tweet Trailer -FROM THE ATTIC>Hello from Los Angeles: Pursuing dance academically has been a long term dream, almost an extension of my...

Tweet My previous post titled “Reflecting at the Attic” was an encomium to some of the greatest teachers/gurus I have met and been...

Tweet Almost twenty days past the 19th of March. The day FROM THE ATTIC performance series got premiered. After all the buzz, hectic...

Tweet The search for a  lost dance form or repertoire means it is a holistic search for its historical context, the narratives, voices...

Tweet This is an experience I must share with my friends, readers, aspiring researchers and everyone. During my doctoral work one of the...

Tweet In South India one cannot ever talk of sculptures or paintings without speaking of the Cholas! They are the holy grail of South...

Tweet He was the most illustrious of his dynasty. The moment we hear his name our minds will wander to the temple city of the South-...

Tweet They waltz in together. Two women adorned with beautiful nose rings, toes rings, chutti, Jadai billai, naagar, their silken pallus...

Tweet This  blog is inspired by another blog written by the renowned Danseuse and scholar Lakshmi Viswanathan ji as part of her column...

Tweet Fifteen minutes after I was born, my father knocked on the doors of Pandit Sethuraman, renowned numerologist and astrologer. He...

Tweet Namaskarams, I am guilty for my long silence. I know I can blame it on my work load, travelling and much more, but all that would...