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Sruti Lockdown diaries with Rasikas
Sruti has been receiving emails from artists, rasikas and Sruti readers on their inspirations, experiences this lockdown and what they are listening to during this period. Sruti has compiled this...
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Sruti Lockdown diaries with Dancers
Sruti has been receiving emails from artists, rasikas and Sruti readers on their inspirations, experiences this lockdown and what they are listening to during this period. Sruti has compiled this...
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Dancers lockdown diaries
Indira Kadambi, Bharatanatyam dancer and teacherCORONA - Co Rona - Pyaar Carona !World is crying together on one hand and on the other hand families are bonding with love more strongly than ever. So...
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Weekly Roundup @ Apsaras Arts, Singapore
Coping with Circuit-Breaker in Singapore Vidhya NairThis past week has been intellectually stimulating and our dancers were pushed to innovate outside their usual boundaries with several initiatives...
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Editor's Note
S. JANAKIUnder unique circumstances we have brought out a unique volume this time—combining two issues of Sruti for the months of April and May. The corona Covid-19 virus has been playing havoc around...
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Sruti Fan Diaries
#Fandiaries during LockdownKrishnan Iyer, Corporate honcho who dives into the realms of Carnatic music and progressive rock and is based in Bangalore My all-time favourite singer is Sikkil Gurucharan....
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Sruti Lockdown diaries with musicians
Sruti has been receiving emails from artists, rasikas and Sruti readers on their inspirations, experiences this lockdown and what they are listening to during this period. Sruti has compiled this...
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Interview - Mrinalini Sarabhai
‘No shortcuts to technical perfection’: Mrinalini Sarabhai - Interviewed by S. JanakiOn the contemporaneity and relevance of classical danceThe classical dance forms will remain relevant for all time...
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Vidhya NairIn commemoration of International Dance Day, Aravinth Kumaraswamy, Artistic Director, Apsaras Arts was invited to give a presentation on the role of costumes and set design in ensemble...
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Dancers Lockdown Diaries
Mahalakshmi Ashwin, Bharatanatyam dancer and teacherFor the first time in my life and my little knowledge of history, India and the world as a functional human colony has come to a standstill. I am...
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Birth Centenary Tribute: Pandit Ravi Shankar
Meena BanerjeeWho could imagine that the 100th birthday of Pandit Ravi Shankar (7th April) would come and go so quietly! The sudden impact of the pandemic in late March this year caused cancellation of...
View ArticleReinventing the classical performance for the virtual audience
Aarthi SrinathCOVID-19, in a few weeks, has achieved what many Chief Technology Officers have striven to do for years - forced businesses and professionals alike to embrace the online virtual world!...
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Covid and folk artists
V.R. DevikaMy cellphone rang… it was Roja Kannan (president of the Association of Bharatanatyam Artistes of India). “Devika”, she said, “ABHAI has been asked by IGNCA to identify artists in dire need...
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Who is Bharata?
Indira ParthasarathyWho is Bharata, the author of the Natya Sastra?Unlike Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, who raised the question, “What is Truth?” and would not pause for an answer, I would pause...
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Apsaras Arts – Roundup – 16th May to 25th May 2020
Vidhya NairIn the third week of May, Apsaras Arts presented an in-depth discussion on the making of Anjaneyam– Hanuman’s Ramayana - Aravinth Kumaraswamy in conversation with Chitra Sundaram,...
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Vidushi T Rukmini passes away
Eminent violinist T. Rukmini passed away this afternoon. She was 84.Born on 27 November 1936, T. Rukmini has been one of the most preferred violin accompanists in the Carnatic music scene for years....
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Veteran Bharatanatyam exponent and guru Sudharani Raghupathy, on the sudden demise of her husband R. Raghupathy, on 29 May in Chennai. Sruti offers its condolences to her and the family.
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Apsaras Arts – Roundup 25th to 31st May 2020
Vidhya NairThe last week of May 2020 marked the end of the “Circuit Breaker” in Singapore’s lockdown and end of mid-term holidays for school children. With many online content offerings, it was a...
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FROM THE EDITOR
Its Covid here, its Covid there, its Covid-19 everywhere! It has had its impact on every sphere and will continue to do so in the future too, to the extent that people are now talking about BC and...
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Award for Apsaras Arts, Singapore
Vidhya NairSingapore based Apsaras Arts, was one of the first of six organisations who became inaugural recipients of The Stewards of Singapore’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Award – an award given to...
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