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‘Radhe RAdhe – Sweet Surrender’ draws references and influences from the folk form Radha Prema Leela. “Take Ganjam’s art and dance to the international stage,” were the words of the distinguished scholar and artist Dinanath Pathy, which became the guiding force for guru Gajendra Panda and dancer-choreographer Datuk Ramli Ibrahim. Inspired by Dinanath, also their…
‘Radhe RAdhe – Sweet Surrender’ draws references and influences from the folk form Radha Prema Leela. “Take Ganjam’s art and dance to the international stage,” were the words of the distinguished scholar and artist Dinanath Pathy, which became the guiding force for guru Gajendra Panda and dancer-choreographer Datuk Ramli Ibrahim. Inspired by Dinanath, also their…
Members of Infusion during a photo shoot | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Infusion took the spotlight at Beats 2025 fest at Osmania Medical College grounds in Hyderabad on October 17. As the six-member group played live, the audience moved through a range of moods. Be it the chartbuster Chuttamalle from Devara, soulful Arere manasa from…
Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix and Lars Knudsen attend the ‘Eddington’ red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2025 in Cannes, France. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES Ari Aster’s COVID-era Western Eddington, about a 2020 America quickly losing its mind to conspiracy theories, TikTok and political extremism,…
Swathes of green and a peculiar script beckon you at Shared Echoes, and the longer you gaze on those fonts, the more certain you are of having seen them before. Familiar, and yet new, the raw and primal hand seems to be a cross between hieroglyphics, calligraphy and runes off an ancient manuscript. Shared Echoes,…
Kathak dancer Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee’s performance highlighted the guru-sishya bond between Ramakrishna Pramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee (Kathak), Deepak Majumdar (Bharatanatyam) and Aruna Mohanty (Odissi), who performed at the festival, showed how poetry finds diverse interpretations in dance. It was an evening meant to celebrate the contributions of three veteran…
Sunny Deol comes out of memes this week, demanding an apology from naysayers. Taking a break from the western front, the original one-man army fires a salvo on the Coromandel coast. When Bollywood takes a break from Muslim terrorists, it reincarnates Ravan to take on the hero. A decade after Shah Rukh Khan rode on Chennai…
Somewhere between the syrupy sentimentality of Perfect and the wistful nostalgia of Photograph, my voice had staged a full-scale mutiny. What had started to emerge from my throat could only be described as the tragic wheeze of a deflating bagpipe, or perhaps a particularly anguished accordion. This, as it turned out, was exactly what Ed…
