New Delhi: In the year 1874, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, the writer of Vande Mataram—the song which is both revered and disdained for its explicitly idolatrous content—wrote a largely-forgotten essay ...
Bharatanatyam is no more a regional pride, it has become global, as popular as Yoga in the classical dance genre. What got democratised after the disenfranchisement of the matriarchal hereditary ...