Indian dance schools in America Archives

Alice Boner: Kathakali’s First Ambassador to the West

Vini ADecember 15, 2020

Swiss Indologist Alice Boner’s enthusiasm for Kathakali triggered the Kerala art-form’s popularity across the West since the 1930s. She remains largely forgotten amid the 90th anniversary celebrations of Kalamandalam, the dance-theatre’s premier institution.

Armour to Cecil: The undiscovered humourists of literature

Vineeth AbrahamAugust 23, 2021

There are a host of relatively unsung writers who are as witty as Jerome K Jerome or Mark Twain, and are worthy of reading and even re-reading, says the author, giving a glimpse of some of his favourites — Richard Armour, Tom Sharpe and Henry Cecil among them