Malini Nair
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How Krishna Bisht crossed Delhi’s cultural divide to carry the Dilli gharana into a new era (opens the original)
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The distance between Mausiqi Manzil in Daryaganj and the small, manicured bungalows on Rouse Avenue near ITO was not great. But in the Delhi of the 1950s, entire worlds separated the lives of Chand Khan and Krishna Chakravarty. He was the khalifa or steward of the Dilli Gharana, a strictly patriarchal lineage of hereditary Muslim musicians entrenched in the chaos of the old city. She came from an equally conservative family of Vaishnavite Bengalis, immersed in notions of ritual purity, in centra
Kuchipudi has lost its theatrical soul. An 85-year-old guru is trying to bring it back (opens the original)
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Master Rattiah reserves his sharpest rebuke for dance that chooses spectacle over rigour. “Decoration,” he said, with scathing contempt. At 85, he has earned the right to be exacting. Pasumarthi Rattiah Sarma – Master Rattiah to generations of dancers – is among the few remaining masters of the nearly extinct Yakshagana form of Kuchipudi that is a complex alloy of theatre, dance, music and poetics. For Rattiah, Kuchipudi is not merely movement: the dancer must sing, recite poetry, deliver dialog
The story of Kerala’s first female writer-composer who transcended her time (opens the original)
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A gaunt elderly woman, her face sombre and framed by wispy grey hair left loose over her shoulders, gazes out in the side-profile. She wears the unmistakable symbols of an upper caste elite woman from 19th-century Kerala: the mundu mulakacha wrap tied across her chest, layers of gold around her neck, and a yawning ear piercing that signals a lifetime of wearing heavy gold earrings. Yet to dismiss Kuttykunju Thangkachi as merely a privileged noblewoman would be a profound mistake. The tumultuous
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