Chitra Swaminathan

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Dancers performing the reconstructed ‘Prana’ at Spaces in Chennai

How do you reconstruct a 30-year-old dance piece created by the iconic Chandralekha?

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The Eastern gate of the Nataraja temple in Chidambaram

How the Natyanjali festival celebrates Chidambaram’s eternal bond with dance

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Qawwali by Arshad Hussain Chisti and group at the Mahindra Sanatkada LUcknow Festival

How the Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival offers a beautiful slice of Awadh’s syncretic culture

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Ghatam exponent Vikku Vinayakram

Shakti at 50: What makes the band still tick?

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GJR Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi.

‘Our father never wanted us to be his clones,’ say Lalgudi Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi

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The Sacred Spirit Festival at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur

A packed cultural calendar: The Indian music and dance festivals you shouldn’t miss

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Sarangi player Momin Khan

Young Momin Khan’s efforts to popularise the sarangi among new-age music lovers

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The 11-member band

United colours of Berklee Indian Ensemble

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At the Madhuradhwani concert in Chennai

Three mandolin artistes and a majestic Thodi

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Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris.

How Peter Brook’s ‘Mahabharata’ influenced creative minds across the globe

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Bharatanatyam dancer Narthaki Nataraj

‘I am not just a transgender Bharatanatyam artiste,’ says Narthaki Nataraj

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An abhivriddhishala on ‘The magic of Mylapore’ conducted by Padma Subrahmanyam

How dancers have been bonding over Bharatanatyam

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Pt. Shivkumar Sharma performing at the Music Academy in Chennai on August 31, 2004.

Pt. Shivkumar Sharma broke new ground with the santoor

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Farooq Chaudhry

Farooq Chaudhry: The master of art management

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