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Narthaki Monthly Newsletter

Oct 2025
ARTICLES

Arts education can be transformative when it nurtures 'rasikas' and not just performers
- Geeta Chandran
We have to craft a basic arts education curriculum that brings together different art forms, and some amount of exposure to writing on the arts.

Art as labor: Toward sustainable models for independent artists
- Adhirai Karthik
The paper is divided into two halves: the first half engages with Nadhi Thekkek, Maya Kulkarni and Kaustavi Sarkar who adopt a product-based approach through their art. The second half explores the work of Anuj Vaidya and Usha Srinivasan who create work with the audience / community....

Abhinaya as feeling, not form
- Masoom Parmar
On emotional presence in Indian "classical" dance performance.

How can dance practices help us engage constructively with a turbulent world?
- Dana Caspersen
Dance work is both visionary and reality based. Dancers anticipate transformation and do the groundwork to move toward it.

The problem with "Embody"
- Masoom Parmar
Why we need to be more precise in artistic language.



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