Intelligent, articulate and self-aware SUDHA RAGUNATHAN chats with Aparna M Sridhar about three decades of life in Carnatic Music, gently tossing back at critics the casual, unfair barbs about everything from her sartorial style to the “early” bestowing of top awards.
This book Essays on Indic History is not just a chronology of events from the past. In fact, it is a deep connection to our present It makes us who we are.
Pallavas and Chalukyas have had an extremely competitive relationship. Both were strong regional powers within Indian in the 6th – 8th-century timespan. However, no matter how strong the rivalry, we see an underlying theme of the exchange of art and aesthetics between these dynasties.
Kuchipudi and Vilasini Natyam practitioner Anupama Kylash speaks to Indic Today about the importance of Indian treatises and Sanskrit for dance, on the eve of the fifth Ramachar Memorial Concert which presents Sanskritotsava.
There are many women protagonists in Valmiki’s Ramayana and all of them operate in pairs, almost like a counter character. When one reads the original as Kavita Kané, author of…
Every year on Bahula Panchami day, the who’s who of Carnatic music descends on to the Samadhi of Carnatic composer Thyagaraja Swami at Thiruvaiyaru in Thanjavur district. The Cauvery is…
Internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and actress Rukmini Vijayakumar is well known in dance circles for having pushed the envelope in terms of creativity and contemporary thinking and execution of an…
Nithin Sridhar, the author of the new release ‘Samanya Dharma’ and Editor of IndiaFacts, has been a student of the Dharmashastras for decades. As the Editor of IndiaFacts, he comes…
Dr Raj Vedam participated in a session on ‘Unravelling the layers of History and Kavya’ organized by the Center for Soft Power, Indic Academy and Heritage Trust, at Bangalore on…
The first ever complete video documentation of the entire Rig Veda chanting of Pada Paatha, rendering of the constituent words of Rig Veda mantras in the unique traditional Kerala style…
“An “aha” moment in Citrakāvya will go a long way in sustaining interest in Sanskrit” – Dr Shankar Rajaraman Dr Shankar Rajaraman will be speaking at an event organised jointly…
Indic Academy is a partner for the 6th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium scheduled to take place between October 23-25 at IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal Modern linguists believe that the…
Participate in a 1000 km car rally through the heartland of Karnataka, with pit-stops at Hoysala temples, fuelled by dance and music, with the Heritage Trust and Indica. Creative ideas…
Historian Pradeep Chakravarthy says temple inscriptions provide invaluable insights on how to deal with mankind’s perennial quest for identity, conflict resolution and security In the heat and dust of Thanjavur…
Stories are told in India in a myriad ways. Sometimes they creep upon us unexpectedly in the most deadening of daily routines, awakening new perspectives, increasing our grasp of truth…
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