The collection Wild Girls, Wicked Words is an anthology of poetry translated from Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom. The collection contains…
I started learning Bharatanatyam in 1988, when I was six years old. Looking back, it feels like beginning to learn…
[slideshow_deploy id=’4883′] This series of images captures a few Indian dance forms that have over time told stories of desire….
It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
In December TARSHI interviewed Anita Ratnam, who is a leading Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer based in Chennai. In her own…
The Hollywood rendition of the Geisha world, with Edward Said’s Orientalism [1] thrown in, reminds us of a simple fact: things…
“For every incarnation of Rama, there is a Ramayana”, says AK Ramanujam in his essay ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas’. So, too, there…
Music is a universal language. It has no gender. It belongs to everyone. For certain communities’ music has been a…
“Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance like I have diamonds at the…
I just celebrated my twenty years in India last October and designed a performance for the occasion: ‘What is dance?’…
संगीत की भाषा सार्वभौमिक है। यह वर्ण, जाति तथा लिंग इत्यादि से भी परे है। संगीत सभी का है। कुछ…