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Cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mahindra Kabira festival returns to Varanasi from November 26-28, organiser Teamwork Arts announced on Wednesday. The festival, however, this year will allow a limited entry of "small and select audience of double-vaccinated people" only, they clarified. Celebrating the wisdom of the 15th century mystic poet Kabir, it will

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Deepti Navaratna, the current Regional Director of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, has been invited to perform at the prestigious Parliament of the Worlds Religions scheduled to be held on Oct 18.She is a trained Carnatic singer ...

Aishwarya Rai marked her debut with a character that resembled Jayalalithaa

The oldest practitioner of the Kirana gharana is often called a rebel, reformer, re-interpreter – and for good reason.

These are certainly testing times, the pandemic wreaking havoc across age groups, across even health parameters, where even those considered healthy have been gravely afflicted. The cures sought have been multi-fold, going beyond the recognised allopathic treatments to encompass alternative medicines as well as the regular practice of yoga, meditation and breathing techniques.

Techniques such as stomping, clapping, snapping fingers and striking parts of the body have been explored widely across musical cultures for centuries.

Students who could not pass one or two subjects in the Karnataka Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC or Class 10) examinations will be able to appear in supplementary examinations on September 27 to 29.

Nothing compensates for a live performance. Period. And this unshakeable truth is at the heart of the gloom performing artistes (and their audience) both feel as the virus continues to gnaw at the edges of our collective fear.

Language/Culture     Guwahati: As the World Sanskrit Day (Vishvasamskritadinam), an annual event to focus on India’s most ancient language and