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Even with all the greed, the stupidity, 
The terrible things that we are facing and reading in the news
Or experiencing…
I want to be alive
I want to breathe
I want to do my work
- Patti Smith, American singer-song writer and poet

Anita R Ratnam

October moved like a single restless current between three cities. In Kolkata, the pandals rose in astonishing variety, each one a temporary palace of craft where bamboo, cane, cloth, metal and light were shaped into everything from intimate street shrines to towering architectural fantasies - the makers’ skill turning devotion into pure spectacle. In Madrid, the staccato of flamenco jostled against the late night pulse of churros and hot chocolate - heat and music spilling from plazas as if the city refused to go indoors. Finally, the Venice Biennale that offered rooms with a quieter intensity, where contemporary art sat in careful conversation with the lagoon’s shifting light.

One month, three kinds of looking, and the shared pleasure of watching human hands, minds, bodies and imagination at work.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES


I'm also coming!
- Rama Vaidyanathan
When I turned six, my mother took me to Yamini Krishnamurthy and enrolled me in Bharatanatyam classes.

My Mother
- Ramli Ibrahim
I have always believed that mothers, rather than fathers, have the strongest influence on the children, particularly the sons.






BIRTHDAY WISHES
Jai Govinda: Nov 4
Jayarama Rao: Nov 4
Geetanjali Lal: Nov 5
Kishore Mosalikanti: Nov 5
Lata Pada: Nov 7
Lakshmi Ramaswamy: Nov 7
Priya Murle: Nov 9
Sonali Skandan: Nov 12
Aniruddha Knight: Nov 13
Ragini Chandershekar: Nov 14
Rajashree Shirke: Nov 15
Ileana Citaristi: Nov 16
Nandini Ramani: Nov 18
Uma Sharma: Nov 20
Basu Sinam: Nov 21
Jaya Chandrasekhar: Nov 26
Lata Raman: Nov 28


Dancing panel 13th century AD, Orissa State Museum, Bhubaneswar
Dancing panel (13th century AD), Orissa State Museum, Bhubaneswar
Photo: Veejay Sai

QUOTE
To follow the performing arts involves more than just attending performances.
- Alastair Macaulay, dance critic





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