featured in 2005 Culture is dynamic  - Priyambada Mohanty-Hejmadi  e-mail: mohantyhejmadi@hotmail.com   Tamil compositions for abhinaya  - Lakshmi Viswanathan, Chennai  e-mail: lakshminritya@hotmail.com  (Courtesy Natya Kala Conference 2004)   Putting the record straight  - Bibhuti Mishra, Bhubaneswar  e-mail: mbibhuti60@dataone.in  (in response to Ramli Ibrahim's interview "A storm in a teacup")   In search of the 'authentic' in the Performing Arts  - Shanta Serbjeet Singh, Delhi  e-mail: shanta_singh_serbjeet@yahoo.com   The costumes of the Sutra Odissi dancers of Malaysia:  A dialogue with textual and substantial evidences  - Dr. Soubhagya Pathy, Rahul Acharya, Chittaranjan Bairisal and Harsa Kumar Satapathy  Costume: moral values  - Ram Rahman, New York City  e-mail: ramrahman@yahoo.com   Dance costumes  - Sukanya Rahman, Maine  e-mail: sukanya@gwi.net     Nayika Bheda - s - aka pamper the male ego  - Parimal Phadke, Pune  e-mail: parimalphadke@hotmail.com   Nritya - Sampurna Samarpan  Total Dedication  - Alaknanda, Noida  e-mail: info@kathakindia.org   Indian children – modern denizens of an advanced society or ignorant heirs of a forgotten past?  - Ranjana Dave, Mumbai  e-mail: ranjana_rocks@yahoo.co.in   Scripting with a landscape  - Aparna Sharma, Glamorgan  e-mail: Aparna31S@netscape.net   Haksar revisited: overhaul the Akademis  - Lada Guruden Singh, Delhi  e-mail: lada.singh@gmail.com   A moot point (Poem)  - Kala Ramesh, Pune  e-mail: nonesuch@vsnl.net   To conform or to rebel…  - Deepa Mahadevan, CA  e-mail: deepamahadevan77@yahoo.co.in   International Dance Day messages  29 April 2005  - Prof. Alkis Raftis (President of CID)  - Miyako Yoshida  - Mamata Niyogi Nakra   Preparations for April 29, 2005: International Dance Day  - Prof. Alkis Raftis  e-mail: president@cid-unesco.org   Anu-naad (Resonance) (Poem)  - Kala Ramesh, Pune  e-mail: nonesuch@vsnl.net   Sthayi Bava and Hollywood  - Deepa Mahadevan, CA  e-mail: deepamahadevan77@yahoo.co.in   Becoming and remaining successful in the dance profession  - Padma Chebrolu, OH  e-mail: padma@culturalcentreofindia.com   Creation and Silences  - Kala Ramesh, Pune  e-mail: nonesuch@vsnl.net