How Indian classical dance celebrates love
On Valentine’s Day, four classical dancers — Navia Natarajan, N. Srikanth, Divya Devaguptapu and Amrita Lahiri write about ...
Reimagining Kalidasa's 'Shankuntala' for Chennai audience
Madurai R Muralidharan shares a deeply personal connection to the Sanskrit language. That’s perhaps why, his 27th ensemble work is the retelling of Kalidasa’s t ...
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Kalidasa Road next in line to be messed up
After notable locations such as the Clock Tower near Town Hall, Sri Harsha Road, JLB Road from Chamundipuram to Five Lights Circle, and Lalitha Mahal Road near Arch Gate, it is now the turn of ...
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G Venu: Notating 1,300 classical dance gestures, one mudra, one rasa at a time over decades
“Kalidasa wrote about kings and women differently. In Sakuntalam, for example, she (Shakuntala) expresses her anger towards the king Dushyant, who is himself depicted with the motif of a bee ...
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Samantha Ruth Prabhu is a vision in white in Shaakuntalam’s new song Mallika Mallika, fans call her 'real life apsara'
The video shows Shakuntala, dressed in all white ... The massively mounted film Shaakuntalam is based on the acclaimed Sanskrit play Abhijnana Shakuntalam by Kalidasa. It will release in Hindi, Telugu ...
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Dubai students to wow Edinburgh with Shakuntala
In the pain of losing her beloved, Shakuntala retreats into the forest to live the life of a recluse. Fabled Indian poet Kalidasa rewrote the story of Shakuntala in his play The sign of Shakuntala ...