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Sep 2025
ARTICLES

Tradition in Transition
- Leela Venkataraman
The evening for me brought home the larger aspect of what happens to traditional dance forms in transition.

The death of the full-time critic and what it means for the future of Art Writing
- The Art Daddy
If criticism and thoughtful engagement continue to be pushed aside in favor of shallow viral moments, the cultural conversation risks becoming as thin and ephemeral as the Instagram stories that fuel it.

Sufism and Kathak
- Masoom Parmar
Untangling a misunderstood phrase.

Laya: a practice that dissolves ignorance
- Deepa Chakravarthy
Vidwan Mannarkoil J Balaji talks about the grasp over the relish of the ultimate aesthetic principle, the rhythm within forms.

Dance education in schools
- Bharat Sharma
During a major international dance seminar held in November 2024 in Delhi organized by SNA, in one session focused on Indian Dance in Diaspora, an ICCR student from Bangladesh informed the august gathering - teaching of Bharatanatyam and Kathak has been made compulsory in Bangladesh till 10th standard!

Form in flow: Curvilinear Aesthetics and Ontological Logics in Odissi
- Dr. Rohini Dandavate
Curvilinearity in Odisha isn't just about style - it is a cultural sensibility, deeply embedded in the aesthetic, spiritual, and material consciousness of the Odia people.

Legacy of Brahmi in modern languages
- Devdutt Pattanaik
Brahmi is the mother of most scripts found across Southeast Asia, which spread with Buddhism. But why is it a unique script, different from the Latin alphabet and the Semitic script?



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