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A vocalist remembers her dance guru
Veejai Sai
Carnatic vocalist Radha Viswanathan effortlessly recollects each and every detail about her guru Natyacharya Vazhuvoor Ramiah Pillai as if it happened last week, even though she stopped dancing more than half a century a ...
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A sabdam by Shanmugam
Dance / V.P. Dhananjayan -
The Most Splendid Vamam Of All
Dance / V.A.K. RANG A RAO -
Chandralekha & Her Bodyline Approach
Dance / Leela Venkataraman -
Theatre and politics
Theatre / Indira Parthasarathy -
Khanjira – the frame drum
Music / S.Janaki
Artists
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M.A. Krishnaswamy
Parur M. A. Krishnaswamy is a violinist in the Carnatic tradition who hails from the legendary Parur family of violinists. He is the son of violin vi ...
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Chengannur Raman Pillai
Chengannur Raman Pillai born in 1885, was a kathakali artist who was renowned for his anti-heroic, kathi roles, and was a celebrated dancer to the Tra ...
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Tripti Mitra
Born on 25 October, 1925, to Ashutosh Bhaduri and Shailabala Debi, at Dinajpur, Tripti Mitra was an icon of Bengali theatre and films. She had most of ...
Interviews
‘Plays need performance’
V. Ramnarayan
Indira Parthasarathy is the nom de plume of R. Parthasarathy, an outstanding writer in Tamil. Born on July 10, 1930 in Chennai, Parthasarathy has written several short stories, plays and novels in Tamil. Many of these have been translated into Indian ...
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“The margam must not become obsolete”
Dance / Anjana Anand -
Grateful for his inheritance
Dance / Gayathri Sundaresan -
Kamala at seventy five
Dance / Uma -
WAY OF LIFE
Music / K. K. GOPALAKRISHNAN -
Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam
Music / Renuka Suryanarayanan
Heritage
Ameer Khusrau
S. SANKARANARAYANAN
Pioneers and Trendsetters
Ameer Khusrau
"Poet, musician, composer, scholar, historian, writer and a courtier, a warm hearted humanist, a Sufi mystic and an ardent lover of India, he stands out as one of the most versatile and outstanding names in t ...
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Pioneers and Trendsetters
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN -
P.L. Deshpande
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN -
Rabindranath Tagore
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN -
Kalki Krishnamurti
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN