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

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...

Tweet Dear all, Before I continue any further my story I have to speak about something very important. Some of my friends who have been...

Tweet Dear all, I am overwhelmed by the response I am getting for my first blog. Thank you. With your approval, I continue. I stood below...

Tweet Dear all, When a whole lot of my friends kept requesting, insisting and even chiding me that I must blog about my work, my excuse/...