How did dancer-activist Mallika Sarabhai come to be at the forefront of activism against the Modi government? Professor Andrée Grau gives us the background to a powerful image of the divisions in Gujarat.
20 March 2014
It is ten years since Ustad Vilayat Khan died but the eloquence of his playing lives on in his recordings and through his students. Ken Hunt and Dharambir Singh remember one of the great sitar players of his generation.
20 March 2014
To mark the tenth anniversary of Vilayat Khan’s death, Dharambir Singh will be sharing some of his teacher’s musical compositions… Read More
20 March 2014
In a preview from her new book, Embodied Politics, Dr Stacey Prickett shares her analysis of how South Asian dance has grown to become part of the British cultural consciousness since the 1970s.
16 December 2013
She headlined at this year’s Darbar Festival and will soon be receiving the Sangita Kalanidhi, Carnatic music’s highest award; but this remarkable singer says that she almost drifted into music. Ken Hunt gives us the background.
16 December 2013
This energetic and engaging musician talks to Ken Hunt about his musical explorations since he first picked up a recorder at school in Bolton.
16 December 2013
An exclusive interview by Ileana Citaristi with Guru Shankar Behera, recipient of the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra award 2013 for lifetime achievement in odissi dance.
16 December 2013
Bharatanatyam has always been her passion, but Suba Subramaniam also wanted to be a doctor and she trained as a scientist. She talks to Nicholas Minns about the confluence of art and science in her work as a director and choreographer.
13 September 2013
Svara-Kanti means ‘the beauty of musical sounds’. Guitarist and composer Simon Thacker talks to Seetal Gahir about the shape-shifting musical cultures, from Hendrix to Indian classical and folk styles, on which he drew to create the album Rakshasa.
13 September 2013
In the first of a four-part series on Pulse’s Art of Critical Writing 2, Mavin Khoo shares his thoughts on responding to bharatanatyam performance and on the development of the form.
13 September 2013
