Lata Pada, Founder & Artistic Director Emerita, Sampradaya Dance Creations, Toronto, Canada, has been a member of Narthaki since 2001

When NARTHAKI, the first national directory of Indian dance was released in 1992, the excitement was infectious; imagine, this pocket-sized handbook was going to be THE ready reckoner for the dance fraternity across the globe. It took the ever intrepid, imaginative Anita Ratnam to create and produce this vital resource which has now, in its online avatar, become a veritable, unstoppable expansion of ideas, writings, forums, guest columns...
Through her writing, Anita advocates for open discourse, a critical look at issues of dance in society such as - dwindling audiences and apathy for dance, professionalism on the part of artistes and presenters, absence of private and government support for the arts, ill equipped theatres with unsafe stages and unacceptable toilet facilities... Subjects that should matter to each of us who care about our dance careers!!
NARTHAKI is a champion for Indian dance. Support it. Pay your annual membership.


QUOTE
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

BIRTHDAY WISHES
Kalamandalam Suganthi: Dec 2
Yamini Krishnamurthy: Dec 20
Ratikant Mohapatra: Dec 24
Rhadha - Dec 31



Pattadakkal, Karnataka, 7th to 8th C
Photo: Seetha Ratnakar