Diligent, disciplined, innovative, and unconventional—Rukmini Vijayakumar is a force to reckon with. Unlike a typical Indian household where the focus is on academics, Vijayakumar grew up in a ...
Esha enters her first Bharatanatyam class hoping to wear a costume and perform on stage very soon or make a video for YouTube like her friend. She has been watching her sister dance and wishes to ...
The Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi exponent, who completes 75 years in dance, advocates stronger institutional funding, ...
When she was 13, Mariamal dreamed of learning Bharatanatyam. However, she could not pursue dance as classes were unaffordable. Now 50, Mariamal is finally living her dream, learning Bharatanatyam at ...
When he mixed hot tar for a highway project in the 1980s in Kuala Lumpur, he thought of various mudras. When he collected latex from rubber trees, he dreamed of becoming a dancer. For this young ...
When Arthy Ahmed launched her Bharatanatyam class in Dhaka, many in the classical dance circuit saw it as a side project at best, and a waste of time at worst. "They told me, don't spend your energy ...
The average number of applicants for the Civil Services Examinations in India is 4.56lakh each year (source: civilserviceindia.com). Kavitha Ramu (41) was one of these applicants in 2002 when she ...
When I was twelve, every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. I would stand in ballet shoes on cracked wooden floorboards. Ms. Connie would pull her arms in and push them out from her chest, her back curving and ...
When he mixed hot tar for a highway project in the 1980s in Kuala Lumpur, he thought of various mudras. When he collected latex from rubber trees, he dreamed of becoming a dancer. For this young ...
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