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2022

Evolution of dance - over aeons, everywhere


Stylization par excellence


Dance aesthetics - loukik and aloukik  


2021

'Online Culture': The idea whose time has come


Bengal's Milton - icon of rebellion


How Gita Govinda colored my life


The Immanent and Immaculate One


Dance at dawn


Surrender to the Supreme


Mahatma through dancers' prism


Breaking gender barriers


Bipin Singh: A lodestar in dancers' constellation


Odissi's breath of fresh air


New Muse for new normal


Remapping routes in a warped world


A triptych of femininity


The plain speaking puppets


Monsoon melody from corona crescent


Excellent exotica


Cloud messenger from beyond borders


Re-imagining the pastoral god


Colors of classical choreography


Chiaroscuro of classical cadenza


Dancers' sojourn in distressed days


Two titans and their travelogues


Surreally virtual!


2020

Ineffable echo from an effusive era


A taste of Kathakali


Yog Sunder: The dancer extraordinary


Virtual, with visual variety


Virtual and virtuoso


Jewel from Manipur treasure trove


Fine filigree of vintage Manipuri


Outdancing our exceptional times


Kapila Vatsyayan - My lifetime mentor


Kathak and Dhrupad: Hand in hand


New normal: Dancing behind doors


The theatre colossus I knew


An audio-video-choreo trio


Both acerbic and cathartic


Classicism alongside regional flavors


Looking anew at the dance scene 


Dance: visceral, visual, ritual


Music of the Spheres


Of dancing gene and Varnam mime


Dissecting society's underbelly


2019

Choreographic foray: Contemporary, classical


Feminine Vanguard of Kolkata theatre


Pickle Factory's Potpourri


Mediating among media


From Novelty to Eternity


Other theatres - symbolic, magic


Values across millennia - feminism, feudalism


Start-up nurturing nascent talents


Warped world vs. youth power


Parallel streams - creative and classical


Theatre experiences - folk, freak and Greek


Some charming colors and cadences


The pleasant and the poignant


Social mirror - real and surreal


Sudraka's glimpses into ancient society


Family bonds under lens


A medley of classical dances 


A fairy tale and a morality play


Delving into Partition's realpolitik


Creative dances surging ahead!


Tribute to Kalanidhi Maami and Rasa Purna Festival


The Lyrical and the Intellectual


Social and metaphysical narratives in Odissi


Unrequited Love, Unrelenting bigotry


The Youth Brigade of Odissi


Seven Nymphs from Manipur


The Quintessential Calcutta


Colours of Kashmiriyat



2018

Adoration and Abstraction


The Theatre of Femininity


Dream and iconoclasm


When Kerala connected Kolkata


Delving tradition, deconstructing Ramayana


The political spectra 


A post-Plassey phantasmagoria


Creativity in classical orbs


The spark and the sparkle


Fury, frustration and family heirloom


Fluent, fragrant, flamboyant


Obeisance to an icon


A Kathak-Bharatanatyam jugalbandi


Love is like a red, red rose


The good, the bad and the ugly


Damnation to Redemption


Opulent Odissi 


Folk divas from Bangladesh drama


Many and Mono


Freud and Flashback - Glimpses into World Drama


Ravaged land, scarred psyche 


Portrait of a tortured artist


Fantasy: The Ominous and the Hilarious


Masks marking obscurantism


Masquerade of grandiose dreams


Is classical dance changing guard?


Death and Resurrection


Folk Art embodying eternal spirit


Bonding with Global Theatre


Delving into Folk roots


Real and the Surreal: 8th Theatre Olympics, Part II


Agony and Atonement: 8th Theatre Olympics, Part I


Sensibilities of a Modern Man


Collage of cadences 


The making of Mahagami


Rediscovering a scholarly legacy


Classical and contemporary conundrums


Mellow breeze from Manipur
 

The Yuletide Cadenza



2017

From Birth to Regeneration


Mask and masquerade


Housing tradition and innovation


Tagore, the early women's libber 


From roots to efflorescence


Post Uday Shankar, any which way?


Dissolving borders


The Choreography Connect


Voice and vision of Bhakta Salbeg


A pedigree ensemble’s classical filigree


An epic spectacle nonpareil


Sparkle of Kathak - Gharana or Otherwise


Gods through syncretic prism


Fragrance of Fifty Roses


Ushering in Seasons
 

Sparks of passion


A limitless lustre of love 


Moods, Movements and Melodies


Magical, Mystical, Monumental


The Courtesan Extraordinaire


The Spring Mood


Male messengers of the muse


Twin yarns of empowered Eves


Tiptoe into my parlour


Changing faces of Kathak Kendra


Of Earth, Earthy...



2016

Away from performance arena


Stirrings and Stillness, Sounds and Silence


Holding a legacy aloft


Re-imagining Tagore in style


Tremors from borderlands


Traipsing into light


Creatrix of universe
 

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