To be alive at all is
to have scars
- American writer John Steinbeck
An extra day in February was most welcome to collect my thoughts after a month of relentless travel.
Just two days before February closed, I had the unique opportunity to be
in the presence of one of India's most charismatic politicians. The
extraordinary security checks, the fastidious search of everyone's
social media handles, the minute by minute instructions of where to
stand, how much physical distance that was to be maintained and what to
say felt like a complex handbook of rules. Surrounded by business
professionals who were speaking finance, economics, profitability and
employment, I was the sole artiste in this private meeting. The term
VIKSIT BHARAT was being chanted ever so often during the speeches that
followed and I was left wondering about the most developed form of
expressions of this very idea that the Indian performing arts contained.
The most evolved and the least supported. VIKSIT means DEVELOPED and
while there is so much political emphasis today on a DEVELOPED INDIA -
education, medicine, space, technology and manufacturing, it is in the
arts - the classical arts - that India is truly VIKSIT. Yet, the needle
has shifted and the mood is stubbornly tilted towards popular culture
and the visual spectacle.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Kalamezhuthu: A ritual performance
- Padma Jayaraj
Pictorial designs, is the inheritance of humanity from ancient times.
All over the world, it first appeared on floors, and on walls of human
dwellings.
Harikatha Kalakshepa
- Dr. BM Sundaram
Storytelling took a refined shape in 'Purana Pravachana' (Literary
discourse) and not much later as 'Sangeeta Upanyasam' (Musical
discourse) for the elite audience.
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BIRTHDAY WISHES K Kalyanasundaram: March 1
Bhabananda Barbayan: March 1
Nandini K Mehta: March 7
Murali Mohan Kalvakalva: March 9
Niharika Mohanty: March 11
Sudharani Raghupathy: March 21
Vidhya Subramanian: March 23
Preeti Vasudevan: March 27
VV Ramani: March 28
Aditi Mangaldas: March 30
QUOTE "I do believe that if we
could all align our pelvises, wars would stop and everything would take
its right place… The more dancers we have, the more healing can take
place."
- Dan Wagoner (Dance Magazine, 2007)
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