return of antiquities Archives

Honouring Musicians

India Art ReviewJune 3, 2022

Kalyani Music Trust, Tripunithura is honouring carnatic musicians and will be distributing its first ES…

Lecture demonstration on Tambura

IAR DeskJune 17, 2021

Dhvani conducts ‘The song of Tambura’- a lecture demonstration by musician Ranjani Sivakumar on the…

Saptam: The Occult Origins of Mohiniyattam –95

Nirmala PanikerJuly 30, 2023

The mesmerizing world of Saptam in mohiniyattam.

The Perils of Being Overly Imaginative

Vineeth AbrahamSeptember 16, 2021

The author comes from a family of hard-core rationalists, but his overly active imagination prevented him from sleeping well after reading horror novels

The Occult Origins of Mohiniyattam – Part 25

Nirmala PanikerDecember 15, 2021

Nirmala Panicker describes the routes she traveled to research Mohiniyattam.

Vintage Vignettes: V.S.N. on Parur Sundaram Iyer

IAR DeskAugust 20, 2021

Violinist Parur Sundaram Iyer was popular among all kinds of music connoisseurs owing to his knowledge of both oriental and occidental styles of music, wrote V. S. Namboothiripad, Kerala’s first music critic, in 1954, specifically mentioning the violinist’s visit to Kabul in Afghanistan as a representative of Indian music

Comics Dissertations: Enter Images, Exist Words

Sathyaraj VenkatesanFebruary 6, 2023

Comics dissertations are redefining the ways of thinking, knowing, and the very conduct of inquiry itself, thus marking a generational shift in how dissertations are presented within academia and beyond.