Rare videos of Uday Shankar
If you follow British Pathe videos you would have seen this. Also, this is kind of a repost as Minai, the dance detective, had already covered these. Click here to […]
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Rare interview of Uday Shankar
Thanks to Swarup, who brought to my attention, we have a rare interview of the dancer Uday Shankar shot in the 70’s for Doordarshan. This was supposedly re-telecast in DD […]
Some historical snippets of BN – Part 18 – Male Dance costume
This post is a continuation of the previous posts about Bharatanatyam costumes (Part 16 and Part 17), excluding jewellery aspect of Aaharya, with some interesting tidbits. This is the third […]
Do you know Padma?
Do you know Padma? Nah, not Padma Lakshmi, but Pad.ma the online digital video archive? To quote from their website Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – […]
A lesser known fact of Pt. Ravi Shankar
Only a few know that the late Pandit Ravi Shankar started his career as a dancer in his brother, Uday Shankar’s troupe. That was between 1930-1938. He was in his […]
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2011 Festival
Apologies for a bit late announcement here. There is still time to catch some of the performances, I think. Thanks to Madhana Raghavan for pointing this event. On 9th October […]
Bharathanatyam and the worldwide web 