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Intricate jathis and bhava-rich portrayal marked Aswathi’s Bharatanatyam performance at the Mid-Year Dance Festival, hosted by The Music Academy. | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani As part of The Music Academy’s Mid-Year Dance Festival, Bharatanatyam dancer Aswathi K. and disciple of Shijith Nambiar and Parvathy Menon, presented a solo performance, seamlessly weaving bhakti and storytelling. The…
Sushma Thota with an artwork by Thota Vaikuntam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement An art exhibition showcasing the works of acclaimed artists such as Thota Vaikuntam, Jogen Chowdary, Shakti Burman, Laxman Aelay and Ramesh Gorjala, is on view in Hyderabad. The showcase is a part of Paropakar 2025: Art for Education, a fund-raising initiative by…
Dr Boban Ramesan at Meditations, Chapter One | Photo Credit: Nainu Oommen Chapter one of Meditations, an art exhibition by Dr Boban Ramesan, currently on at Vylopilly Samskrithi Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram, presents a glimpse into what truly affects the artist — consciously and subconsciously. From depictions of frames inspired by legendary filmmakers Satyajit Ray and…
As one steps into the white-walled, high-ceilinged hall on the first floor of the Durbar Hall Art Centre, the Last Supper I at the far end screams ‘look at me’ and ‘keep looking at me.’ It is very hard to take one’s eyes off the six-feet-by-eight-feet oil on canvas painting. The show features the artist’s…
(L to R) Zeenat Aman as Maji, Jagdish Rajpurohit as Girdhari in The Royals. | Photo Credit: Supriya Kanthak/Netflix Set in the fictional town of Morpur, the recently-released The Royals has been received rather poorly by reviewers. ‘There are queer royals, royals having affairs, and royals who would rather be a chef. Though just portraying…
Divya Hoskere performing at The Music Academy’s 2025 dance festival | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani Divya Hoskere is a young Bharatanatyam dancer and academician. A disciple of P. Praveen Kumar, she is a PhD scholar at the School of Humanities at NIAS. Her broad area of research includes the study of the Natyashastra, Indian aesthetics…
Vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyam performs at Tamil Isai Sangam in Chennai. | Photo Credit: AKHILA EASWARAN Sanjay Subrahmanyan is, perhaps, the only Carnatic musician who shares the list of songs for each kutcheri beforehand. Though his admirers love this practice of his, some feel that the element of surprise in a concert is compromised. However, the…
An artist explaining about her works at the sixth edition of the group show titled Artists Reunited at Dys Art Gallery in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: KR Deepak The sixth edition of the group show Artists Reunited at Dys Art Gallery has brought together the works of 14 artists from Visakhapatnam, Delhi and Bengaluru. The…
