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 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 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...

Tweet Dear all, I realize this blog is also quite not as immediate to my previous on as I would have desired. But a lot of travelling...

Tweet Hi everyone, I know I have been silent for too long. I was first silenced by the loss of my dear Guru. I then took upon myself to...

Tweet Well in the middle of the season we are. I have had a good month, except that I have had to make a few very important re schedules....

Tweet The Tanjore quartette in the Big temple Painting The Tanjore big temple was a seat of learning, particularly music and dance. From...