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Narthaki Monthly Newsletter

Apr 2026
ARTICLES

Role reversal
- Subha J Rao
Once a male bastion, Yakshagana now has all women troupes that perform through the night.

How emotions evolve in a changing world
- Shreya Kumar Gopal Rao
In Bharatanatyam, abhinaya forces us to experience and visualize emotions from perspectives we may have never considered before.

Beautifully Underthought
- Masoom Parmar
On self-exoticisation, spiritual shorthand, and the rise of under-researched work in Indian performance.

The city stands tall
- Yazhini SP
What kind of people make sense in stories? I wish to show the ideologies that dominate this purely aesthetic question…



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