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 "When the whole world says "MOVE" You plant your feet firmly like a tree And say "NO. YOU MOVE." Lines from the film CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR These thoughts come to you from a month of watching, absorbing and reflecting on a variety of performances, venues, cities and people I have met and interacted with. I started this editorial on the flight to Colombo, continued it in Singapore and completed it in Kuala Lumpur. In all three cities/countries, I was starkly reminded of the fascinating history and achievements of the Tamil communities. Their long struggle under colonial rule through generations of oppression and marginalisation forced them to find cultural moorings for their own psyche. The answer for many lay in music and dance. It was not just in the building of temples and shrines, but in their steadfast loyalty to the Tamizh tongue via the cultural conduit of Bharatanatyam, ritual hymns and of course, movies that buoyed the millions of diaspora immigrants through their dark and brutal early years. Today, dance and music lives on in the homes and lives of the Tamil people around the world, the Sri Lankan Tamils being among the most faithful and active. However, it was not Bharatanatyam that I watched in the month of August. In fact, there was not a single performance of BN that I attended, although festivals and premieres were occurring almost every single day somewhere on the planet and in my home town of Madras/Chennai.. ...Read more |
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  Srjan Repertory presented ‘Tyaaga’ choreographed by Guru Ratikant Mohapatra on Sept 9, 2016 at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar, for the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival. Photos: Arabinda Mahapatra |  Chinmaya Yuva Kendra presented ‘A Tryst with Surya’ Conceptualized by Swami Mitrananda, choreographed by Radhika Kathal On Aug 21, 2016 at Chinmaya Auditorium, Delhi Photos: Anoop Arora |
| Birthday wishes Jitendra Maharaj (Kathak): Sept 9 Kumkum Mohanty (Odissi): Sept 10 Rajika Puri (Odissi): Sept 14 Alarmel Valli (BN): Sept 14 Jhelum Paranjape (Odissi): Sept 24 Ananda Shankar Jayant (BN): Sept 27 | 
Mahanavami Dibba, Hampi, Karnataka Photo: Madhu Nataraj-Kiran |
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