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Thunderous Reverberations: A Powerful Tribute to India’s Percussive Heritage at the National Rhythm Festival 2025

India Art ReviewJuly 18, 2025

A landmark celebration of rhythm, ritual, and resilience, the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi’s National Rhythm Festival brought together India’s diverse percussion traditions under one resonant roof.…

Veerasana and its Benefits

Vasundhara DoraswamyMarch 25, 2023

This is one of the meditative postures which can be learnt easily. It opens up…

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Thank You For The Music

Sundar PKNovember 30, 2021

The writer tries to understand is the taste for music inherent or cultivated

Tracing Nostalgia Through Meiyazhagan

Sankar VarmaApril 17, 2025

Can a city truly remember? As urban spaces race ahead with ambition, they often silence…

Vintage Vignettes: V.S.N on T. Chowdiah

India Art ReviewAugust 6, 2021

Chowdiah was equally skilled in solo performances and accompaniment, while his mastery over the phono-violin was appreciated even by his critics, wrote V. S. Namboothiripad, Kerala’s first music critic, in 1954.

Kapila Vatsyayan and Her Dynamic Quest for Heritage

India Art ReviewSeptember 24, 2020

For all her image as a cultural tsarina, Kapila Vatsyayan, the feisty researcher earned a cultural vision that stemmed theoretical knowledge and practical experience of the arts

Poetics of Fostering the Animal: The Elephant Whisperers

Babu Rajan P PMay 1, 2023

With the decline of natural habitats, human-elephant conflict has seen a surge, often leaving the majestic creatures as unwitting participants. “The Elephant Whisperers” documentary pays homage to the conservation endeavors aimed at preserving these habitats and raising awareness among communities about the perils of anthropocentrism.

The Occult Origins of Mohiniyattam– Part 10

Nirmala PanikerAugust 25, 2021

Sankaracharya mentions the lasya or grace of the Goddess in several of his verses, while the recurring theme of Mohiniyattam – the pain of a Nayika separated from the Nayaka, can be metaphorically compared to Jīvātma yearning to be reunited with the Paramātma.

Navarasa Sadhana workshop

IAR DeskOctober 30, 2020

Koodiyattam maestro Venu G will lead an interactive teaching session on eye exercises and the nuances of the nine stylized facial emotions codified in the ancient acting treatise Natya Shastra. To be held in the first half of the months of November and December 2020, the workshop is being dedicated to 20th-century Kathakali great Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair.