NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Nritya Katha – ‘Dance stories for children,’ published by The National Book Trust of India has nine stories about nine different Indian dance forms. In each story, a child ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X By day, he’s a software engineer. Come evening, however, Kaladhar Bejjanki logs off his ...

At Children’s Manor Montessori School in Germantown where Praneetha Akula was teaching and performing, a little girl got to see herself in her teacher. The pre-K student announced that she knew how to ...

It’s a Saturday, and the decisive, guiding beats of the dhol — a double-headed drum from India — and shouts of “hadippa” (a Punjabi word meaning “hooray”) reverberate through a Sandy dance studio. The ...

Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...