Chiang Mai to break Guinness World Record with massive traditional dance display
Preparations are underway for an extraordinary Guinness World Records attempt in Chiang Mai next Friday, as part of celebrations marking the ancient northern Thai city's 729th anniversary.
More than 20,000 traditional fingernail dancers gather at the iconic Three Kings Monument on 19 April, creating what organisers say will be the largest display of this distinctive Lanna cultural art form ever assembled.

Bhagavad Gita, Natyashastra enter UNESCO's Memory of the World Register; PM Modi calls it a 'proud moment'
- HT News Desk

On Desika's trail
- Manasa Vijayalakshme C
Sri Noopuralaya's 'Sri Desika Vaibhavam' seamlessly wove the saint philosopher's works into the narrative.

The epic's enduring appeal
- Srividya
Anitha Guha's Parshvanga Pattabhishekam had episodes from Bala, Ayodhya and Aranya kandams.

A stage to shine
- V.V. Ramani
Sheela Unnikrishnan's SDN Kriya provides performance opportunities to her shishyas.

Kalady Sanskrit University staff's journey from fitness to arangettam
- Anu Kuruvilla
The Bharatanatyam arangettam of four non-teaching staff has got others in the university keen to join the dance classes as well.

Three artistes many expressions
- V.V. Ramani
The Articulate Festival showed how poetry finds diverse interpretations in dance.

Rakesh Sukesh's dance of diversity
- Hannah Krafcik
The Indian dancer's Portland performances, sponsored by PICA and Boom Arts, give a contemporary twist to questions of race and class in India and the West.

Liberation, silent battles and dreams: The journey of women learning Indian classical dance later in life
- Trupti Manish Khillare
April 29 is celebrated as International Dance Day. On this occasion, DH spoke with women who, like the author, began learning Indian classical dance like Odissi and Bharatnatyam later in life, to discern if it is ever 'too late'?