An excerpt from "Unfinished Gestures..."

Historian Davesh Soneji offers an alternative viewpoint of the history and aesthetic of conventional Bharatanatyam in his book "Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory and Modernity in South India". An excerpt. Presented by Anand Venkateswaran, Produced by Sruthi Krishnan

December 19, 2011 02:10 pm | Updated July 29, 2016 05:33 pm IST

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