Journalist with The Hindu. Writes on art and culture. Email: archana.n@thehindu.co.in
Is tradition ancient and contemporary modern? Does tradition become contemporary by its sheer outlook? On World Dance Day, Archana Nathan asks dancers how they manoeuvre between these two seeming opposites
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2016 / Dance
Veteran filmmaker Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar is back with Ishtakamya this May
Metroplus, The Hindu / April 2016 / Cinema
Singer Manjari on straddling the worlds of classical, ghazal and film music
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2016 / Music
The annual dance festival organised by MES Kalavedi attempted to understand a choreographer’s process and art
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2016 / Dance
Thithi is set to release on May 6. Director Raam Reddy turns the spotlight on the journey of an independent film
Metroplus, The Hindu / April 2016 / Cinema
Engineer-turned filmmaker Hemanth Rao talks about making his mark as a debutant director in the Kannada film industry with the soon-to-release 'Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu'
Metroplus, The Hindu / April 2016 / Interview
Two plays at the CGK Rashtriya Rangotsava offered their take on the theme of tolerance
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2016 / Theatre
With Bangalore going to be choc-a-bloc with concerts and coronation ceremonies for Ramanavami this month, the prevailing notion is that grand is good. But is it really?
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2016 / Opinion
While schools and colleges conduct physical health check-ups, is there enough attention being paid to the mental health of children and adolescents?
Education Plus, The Hindu / April 2016 / Education
Jai Maruthi 800 does not have a story but does one thing spectacularly well. It demeans women, objectifies them and worse, makes them say dialogues that are vulgar and disgusting.
The Hindu / April 2016 / Cinema
On Neil Gaiman and the love for short fictions
The Hindu / April 2016 / Literature
Half Mentalu, with its half-baked plot and misunderstood idea of love drives you mad, for sure.
The Hindu / April 2016 / Cinema
Odissi exponent Sharmila Mukherjee recalls the days of her tutelage under guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and tells Archana Nathan that it is difficult to fill the void left by idols like him
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2016 / Dance
At the heart of Kim Echlin’s novel, Under the Visible Life, is a desperate desire to break free
Sunday Magazine, The Hindu / March 2016 / Literature
The lovely Sudharani is among the long-standing actors of the Kannada film industry. Having been around for three decades, she tells Archana Nathan with a sense of sadness, that the present state of affairs in the industry have given her a cause for intro
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2016 / Interview
Aadiram’s Ranathantra may appear to be a horror-thriller but at the heart of it is an elaborate sermon on Indian culture and how women must behave
The Hindu / March 2016 / Cinema
What does a one-stop annual film festival really amount to in a city where
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2016 / Cinema
Vyuti’s experiment resulted in an organic conversation between modernity and tradition
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2016 / Dance
An intriguing story is wasted as Sunil Kumar Desai’s Re fails to engage the audience
The Hindu / March 2016 / Cinema
Music is her faithful companion but like all creative art, Manorama Prasad says, it remains elusive
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2016 / Music
What is it like to be a man, a woman, a transgender in a country where the law goes right into the bedroom? Natasha Mendonca’s docu-fiction film, Ajeeb Aashiq, which was screened at the recent International Film Festival at Rotterdam, finds out
Sunday Magazine, The Hindu / February 2016 / Cinema
The voices of three female characters from the Hindu epics formed the crux of Nrityanjali’s presentation
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2016 / Dance
There are patches of activity, but a sustained effort for children’s theatre is missing
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2016 / Theatre
Ammar Aziz’s documentary A Walnut Tree tells a heart-breaking story of displacement
Metroplus, The Hindu / February 2016 / Cinema
Even if you try and tell yourself this a hundred times while watching Sadhu Kokila’s Bale Jodi, the film proves you wrong.
The Hindu / February 2016 / Cinema
Actor Anupam Kher speaks to Archana Nathan about his decision to engage with a range of issues plaguing the nation and the particular stance he chose to take
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2016 / Interview
Doordarshan continues to be the only network that nurtures classical dance even today.I attempt to find out why the space for classical dance on television has shrunk so drastically
Friday Review, The Hindu / January 2016 / Dance
Two books I read recently reminded me of an incident with my late grandmother and her wrist watch
The Hindu / January 2016 / Literature
The story is not new at all in Kaviraj’s Maduveya Mamatheya Kareyole. But thanks to Ananth Nag-Achyuth Kumar combination, the film manages to entertain
The Hindu / January 2016 / Cinema
Renowned dancer Vasundhara Doraswamy combined Yoga and Bharatanatyam which is now among the predominant features of a bani named after her by her students. Bashful to talk about her vocation, she tells Archana Nathan that Yoga changes one's outlook to lif
Friday Review, The Hindu / January 2016 / Dance
There is little doubt that Killing Veerappan looks slick and is full of engaging camera work.Where the film fumbles, however, is in the delineation of its characters.
The Hindu / January 2016 / Cinema
Are aspects of light design and set design in theatre to be learnt on the job or is it important to make it a part of formal training? Archana Nathan speaks to a few lighting technicians and theatre directors to find out their views
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2015 / Theatre
Masterpiece is Yash’s latest and in the name of creating a mass entertainer, the film tries to get away with the most perplexing message.
The Hindu / December 2015 / Cinema
Is the proscenium the ideal space for a sufi/bhakti performance?
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2015 / Music
Is a verse in print the same one as that which is recited? Velcheru Narayan Rao, Telugu scholar, says that they can never be the same. The printed word has no memory of the dynamism of an oral text
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2015 / Literature
Can water forge a relationship with a community as solid as land can, asks Haobam Paban Kumar's documentary Phum-Shang
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2015 / Cinema
Project 560, a programme by India Foundation of the Arts, hosted a range of performances and installations across Bengaluru in an attempt to engage with spaces in the city and re-imagine them. A visit to some of them made it evident that the intermingling
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2015 / Performance
The tagline of Ghousepeer’s Sharp Shooter is Nambi Please (please believe). Thankfully, at least the filmmaker already knows that it might be a little difficult to believe the story he chooses to narrate.
The Hindu / December 2015 / Cinema
In the 25 years that Shaan has spent in the Hindi playback industry, poetic sensibilities have changed and so have the commercial constraints of the industry. Archana Nathan talks to him about being in yesterday and today
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2015 / Music
What takes precedence over all reasons as the biggest cause for outrage is Rathavara's portrayal of the transgender community.
The Hindu / December 2015 / Cinema
Bharatanatyam dancer Vidhya Subramaniam’s workshop at Dance Jatre 2015 underscored the value of interdisciplinary learning
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2015 / Dance
An archive cum connoisseur – that’s what Sivakumar Perumal Pandithar is. At the recent Dance Jatre he put out an exhibition of a mere 180 articles on dance from his collection of 2000
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2015 / Dance
The Nali Kali is a 15-year old radical project by the Government of Karnataka. It hoped to integrate formal learning with non-formal methods. But cut off from ground realities, the project remains as good as it can get in print, finds ARCHANA NATHAN
Education Plus, The Hindu / November 2015 / Education
Bharatanatyam dancer Vidhya Subramaniam’s workshop at Dance Jatre 2015 underscored the value of interdisciplinary learning
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2015 / Dance
An archive cum connoisseur – that’s what Sivakumar Perumal Pandithar is. At the recent Dance Jatre he put out an exhibition of a mere 180 articles on dance from his collection of 2000
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2015 / Dance
Vamshoddaraka gives you a little too much of everything and that is not necessarily a good thing.
The Hindu / November 2015 / Cinema
A profile of Veena Raju, who owns one of the few remaining shops in Bangalore that makes the veena from scratch
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2015 / Music
Neel Chaudhuri's Still and Still Moving and Sharanya Ramprakash's Akshaya Ambara intersected in more ways than one even though their plots had nothing in common
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2015 / Theatre
In his attempt to narrate a story close to his life, the filmmaker oscillates between celebrating gangsters and condemning violence. Bettanagere leaves you a little tired and confused.
The Hindu / October 2015 / Cinema
Shirley and Hinda, two best friends in their nineties, attempt to find answers to the global economic crisis.
Metroplus, The Hindu / October 2015 / Cinema
How far can you go while reconstructing a crime on celluloid? How many ‘cinematic liberties’ can you take? Ring Road, directed by an all-women crew led by Priya Belliappa, evokes these questions.
The Hindu / October 2015 / Cinema
Malashree's latest suffers because of its used, bizarre and irrelevant script. After all, the charm of the 'lady superstar' alone cannot be enough to ensure the film's success.
The Hindu / October 2015 / Cinema
Directed by Gadda Viji, Plus, starring Ananth Nag, makes you wonder if storytelling is really that difficult
The Hindu / October 2015 / Cinema
The morsing is a peculiar instrument, not just for how it is played but also for its unique role in a classical concert. A few artists from Karnataka recount their tryst with the percussion instrument and speak of what needs to be done to preserve the art
Friday Review, The Hindu / October 2015 / Music
Ring Master prophesises and attempts some moral policing too, thrusting the message of ‘Be good or be gone’ in your face
The Hindu / October 2015 / Cinema
Kathak and contemporary dancer Akram Khan speaks about the value of a collaborative project.
Friday Review, The Hindu / October 2015 / Dance
From the time it was instituted in the 1950s, the home science course has come a long way. Not just that, ARCHANA NATHAN finds that even our idea of who manages the home has changed, thereby not just women, even men should take up the home science course
Education Plus, The Hindu / October 2015 / Education
Profession: Documentarist, a collection of seven short documentary films from Iran is a stunning attempt at capturing the impossibility of being a woman filmmaker in Iran, finds Archana Nathan
Friday Review, The Hindu / October 2015 / Cinema
Hindustani musician, Dr. Soma Ghosh, who performed in Bengaluru recently, recalled all the fortunate musical encounters that shaped her music and life in a conversation with Archana Nathan
Friday Review, The Hindu / October 2015 / Music
Arjuna aspires to be a revenge-thriller but does not quite get there.
The Hindu / September 2015 / Cinema
Bhakti is the route to liberation, says Bharatanatyam dancer Gayatri Sriram, who presented her production, Mukti Marga recently
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2015 / Dance
Connecting theory and practise, Curiositi designs education kits to make the classroom experience more interesting for school children
Education Plus, The Hindu / September 2015 / Education
Review of Indrajit Lankesh's Luv U Alia
The Hindu / September 2015 / Cinema
Do we lack the know-how to evaluate the role of an arts institution in society?
Education Plus, The Hindu / September 2015 / Art
Suri’s Kendasampige is admirably crisp, adequately dark and thrilling
The Hindu / September 2015 / Cinema
Lalit Vachani’s two documentaries on the RSS offer an opportunity for a holistic discussion on the role of right-wing organisations in India
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2015 / Cinema
Review of Shrijai's Rx Soori: excessive bloodshed and vulgar-est of comedy
The Hindu / September 2015 / Cinema
A profile of Gunda Shastry, a veteran Hindustani musician in Bangalore
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2015 / Music
Cherry Thota, the Kannada version of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard not only retained the original's essence but added its own innovation too
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2015 / Theatre
India is one of the leading consumers of the Massive Open Online Courses. Who are the learners and what space does digital learning occupy today?
Education Plus, The Hindu / August 2015 / Opinion
Filmmaker Lalit Vachani tracks the AAP's nascent days through the prism of Shazia Ilmi's political campaign.
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2015 / Cinema
Review of Nagaraj Khandagal's Shh..Eccharike
The Hindu / August 2015 / Cinema
Is news more about theatrics than honest and unbiased presentation
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2015 / Opinion
How relevant is film school education to the film industry?
Education Plus, The Hindu / August 2015 / Cinema
Review of UPPI2, Upendra's sequel to his 1999 film- 'Upendra'
The Hindu / August 2015 / Cinema
Adirvalai Bimbangal, a Tamil period drama brought to stage by Karpanai Kudirai, came with multiple perspectives to what could have been the story of Lady Macbeth
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2015 / Theatre
Untrained, first-time music directors Pawan and Praveen say that sometimes instinct is all it takes to create music
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2015
How relevant is film education to the film industry?
Education Plus, The Hindu / August 2015 / Cinema
Review of Maley which glorifies stalking as love.
The Hindu / August 2015 / Cinema
At a recent seminar on guru-shishya parampara, practitioners recalled how their gurus were more than just teachers to them
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2015 / Dance
A review of Sapno Ki Rani, a Kannada film starring Srujan Lokesh and Aishwarya Shindogi
The Hindu / August 2015
Interview with Indonesian filmmaker Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni. Her film Denok & Gareng was screened in Bangalore recently.
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2015
Review of this week's release: Sapno Ki Rani
The Hindu / August 2015
Perhaps it is easy to be offended by a sex comedy. But Bullet Basya pushed the limits. And HOW.
The Hindu / July 2015 / Cinema
Throwback to the decade that brought classical dance forms such as Odissi and Kathak to South India
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2015 / Dance
Interview with Iranian diaspora filmmaker Shahin Parhami who says that it is impossible to make films in Iran today
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2015 / Cinema
How is the B.A in Performing Arts faring in Bangalore? Does it have enough teachers? Or students. Some shocking and disheartening facts emerge.
Education Plus, The Hindu / July 2015 / Education
Poorly made and difficult to sit through: Raju Halaguru's latest film starring Rakesh Adiga and Soniya
The Hindu / July 2015 / Cinema
Review Sandhya Kumar's documentary on the world's largest hockey festival
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2015 / Cinema
A profile of Anoor Vinod Shyam and Sunaad Anoor, who hail from an illustrious musical family
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2015 / Music
Review of horror-thriller Rangitaranga, this week's offering from the Kannada film industry
The Hindu / July 2015 / Cinema
A report on photographer Pierre Poulain's lecture on how to take that decisive picture
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2015 / Craft
Dubbing artists in the Kannada film industry actually came in with the ambition of becoming actors.
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2015 / Cinema
review of gangsta Kannada film Ganapa
The Hindu / July 2015 / Cinema
Review of Kattale Belaku and Ninneya Naale- two Kannada plays that were staged at Ranga Shankara as part of the Kannada Natakotsava
Friday Review, The Hindu / June 2015
Review of Vatikutira's Kannada play Shraddha Mattu Stainless Steel Patregalu
Friday Review, The Hindu / May 2015 / Theatre
My review of this week's Kannada release, Eradondla Mooru
The Hindu / May 2015 / Cinema
Why are Kannada films so short-lived in theatres today?
Friday Review, The Hindu / May 2015 / Cinema
Review of Kannada film Mrugashira. Bizarre it was.
The Hindu / May 2015 / Cinema
Interview with Sumangala Damodaran who is working on an archive of protest songs
Friday Review, The Hindu / May 2015
A look at what's worrisome about the portrayal of women on television. I use examples from Kannada television
Friday Review, The Hindu / May 2015 / Opinion
Review of S.V. Rajendra Singh Babu's Rebel. Such torture.
The Hindu / May 2015 / Cinema
Review of Imran Sardhariya's directorial debut in Kannada, Endendigu
The Hindu / May 2015
Interview with Harsh Mander on the occasion of the launch of his new book: Looking Away, Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
Friday Review, The Hindu / May 2015 / Literature
Review of Prakash Belawadi's English theatre adaptation of U.R.Ananthamurthy's Avasthe
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2015 / Theatre
Reviews of a Malayalam play 'Chakka' and the Tamil 'Vaanchiyar Kaandam'
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2015 / Theatre
Chinese filmmaker Zhou Hau reveals that there is another side to China. A side that is willing to acknowledge the country's shortcomings. His film 'Cotton' stands faithfully beside the cotton pickers, mostly women, in Xinjiang
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2015 / Cinema
The Sheshadripuram leg of Ramanavami saw some exceptional artists present their music
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2015 / Music
An interview with filmmaker Paromita Vohra who believes that the Documentary needs a market model that is different from the feature film
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2015 / Cinema
Theatreperson Manjunath Badiger talks about what it means to sketch a life in theatre. His play Chitrapata won 3 awards at Meta, New Delhi
Friday Review, The Hindu / April 2015 / Theatre
A report+review of Marapachchi Theatre's production 'The Gravedigger', a play that brought forth the horrible murder of Seeralan, an activist belonging to the radical left, by the State.
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2015 / Theatre
An interview with Theatre historian, Makarand Sathe, whose book 'A Socio-political history of Marathi theatre' was recently released in Bangalore
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2015 / Theatre
A review of two Kannada plays that were staged at Samsa Rangamandira at a State-level theatre festival organised by Bhagavataru
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2015 / Theatre
Where is Bhavageethe today? Has Sugama Sangeetha in Karnataka taken a back seat?
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2015 / Music
This post is not a review of NH10, but a commentary on the audience that I watched it with yesterday, a crowd that mocked and guffawed every time protagonist Meera faltered in her war against patriarchy.
The Hindu Blogs / March 2015 / Opinion
A report on a dance seminar that featured two lectures exploring the relationship that dance shares with Tantra and Yoga.
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2015
An interview with Chindu Sreedharan on his foray into Twiction. Epic Retold is the Mahabharata on twitter.
Sunday Magazine, The Hindu / March 2015 / Literature
An interview with Fahad Mustafa, one of the directors of Katiyabaaz which is still doing the rounds.
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2015
David Davison, Visual Artist and Professor Emeritus, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, says that it is ridiculous that women artists have been left out of the records of art history. Who is invited to the table is a big deal in the world of art h
Friday Review, The Hindu / March 2015 / Art History
My report on Prof. George Michell's talk on the art of the Early Chalukyas. Barring three panels in Mumbai and one in Delhi, no Chalukyan art is in any museum in the world.
Metro Plus, The Hindu / February 2015 / Art History
A report on Arshia Sattar's talk at IIHS where she linked the dharmas of the cities in Ramayana with the contemporary reality faced by women in our country. She says that our cities are only as liberal as the freedom given to our daughters.
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2015 / Opinion
A report on the changing realities and reading habits at the public and private libraries in Karnataka. Also stumbled upon a huge fund crisis that puts everything in perspective.
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2015 / Opinion
The sheer satire and subversion in S.N.S.Sastry's films is astounding
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2015
Review of the Kannada adaptation of William Shakespeare's Tempest staged at Ranga Shankara by Sanchaya
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2015 / Theatre
Interview with Flautist N. Ramani
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2015 / Music
An interview with Jayachandran Palazhy, Artistic Director, Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts, ahead of the Attakalari India Biennial
Friday Review, The Hindu / February 2015 / Dance
Part 2 of the debate on whether singing for dance (Bharatanatyam) is considered a separate genre.
Friday Review, The Hindu / January 2015 / Dance
Review of Shweta Prachande's Bharatanatyam recital
Friday Review, The Hindu / January 2015 / Dance
Is singing for dance (Bharatanatyam) acknowledged as a separate genre?
Friday Review, The Hindu / January 2015 / Dance
A report on Dr. T.Satyamurthy's lecture on 'Intricacies of Indian Art.' Satyamurthy challenges the interpretation that in Medieval India, temples were political structures.
Friday Review. The Hindu / January 2015
Review of A. Hariharan's Ghazal concert at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2014
On why flautists are short-changed when it comes to solo concert opportunities. And more importantly, on the need for audiences to detach Carnatic music from their religion.
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2014 / Music
Review of Sridevi T.M's Bharatanatyam recital as part of the December Music Season 2014
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2014 / Dance
Carnatic vocalist Abhishek Raghuram speaks about learning from his grandfather, mridangam maestro Palghat Raghu
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2014 / Music
Report on a Bharatanatyam recital based on King Sahaji's padams
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2014 / Dance
Review of the performance by Avant Garde Dance, a UK based dance company
Friday Review, The Hindu / December 2014 / Dance
Mysore Chandan Kumar shares his impressions of the current music scene
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2014 / Music
Review of Pandit Venkatesh Kumar's Hindustani music recital
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2014
A partial summary of Prof. Champakalakshmi's lecture on the South Indian Temple
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2014 / Art History
A review of a select few performances at the Nartaka Festival in Chennai
Friday Review, The Hindu / November 2014 / Dance
A review of a world music fusion concert in Chennai
Friday Review, The Hindu / October 2014
English stand-up comedy has come of age in a country where censorship is rife and people are easily offended.
Sunday Magazine, The Hindu / October 2014 / Performance
On the decade-long effort to revive Dastangoi, an ancient form of storytelling
Friday Review, The Hindu / October 2014
A profile of Hues N Strokes, a portal for artists from two-tier and three-tier cities in India
Friday Review, The Hindu / October 2014 / Art
A piece wherein I argue that Oliver brings satire back to journalism.
The Hindu / October 2014 / Opinion
A compilation of tributes to Mandolin Shrinivas
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2014 / Music
Review of Parvathy Ravi Ghantasala's latest production- 'Chakra'.
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2014 / Dance
In which I ask the question: what constitutes an appropriate performance space for folk dance?
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2014 / Dance
On Megha Ramaswamy's short film 'Newborns'
Friday Review, The Hindu / September 2014 / Cinema
Review of a Bharatanatyam recital
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2014 / Dance
Interview with Rahul Ram (Indian Ocean)
Sunday Magazine, The Hindu / August 2014 / Music
Popular indie musicians offer their assesment of the current soundscape
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2014 / Music
Ani Choying Drolma's performance at a fundraiser brought Buddhist chants to a mainstream audience
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2014 / Music
A review of a Carnatic vocal concert
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2014 / Music
Part II of the debate on the need for a theatre hub in Chennai
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2014 / Theatre
A review of Vietnam House's production of Macbeth
Friday Review, The Hindu / August 2014 / Theatre
Chennai's theatre practitioners debate the need for a theatre hub in the city
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2014 / Theatre
A review of Christopher Gurusamy's Bharatanatyam recital
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2014 / Dance
Leela Samson talks about the need for an evaluation of teaching methodologies in dance
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2014 / Dance
On 'The Tiger with White Eyebrows', a play that was staged in Chennai by Taroo, a theatre company from South Korea
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2014 / Theatre
Review of Vaikundam, a dance ballet.
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2014 / Dance
Review of a dance performance as part of the recently concluded Yagnaraman fest conducted in Chennai
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2014 / Dance
A chat with Shyam Benegal who talks about Dr.Kurien, possibly the first to try crowdfunding in India
Sunday Magazine, The Hindu / July 2014 / Cinema
I review crowdfunding for films in the Sunday Magazine of The Hindu
Sunday Magazine, The Hindu / July 2014 / Cinema
A piece on a week-long music workshop held in Chennai
The Hindu / July 2014 / Music
Interview with Manjoor Khan Manganiyar and troupe
The Hindu / June 2014 / Music
Interview with Ramaiyya Thangaiyya, a potter
The Hindu / June 2014 / Craft
Interview with Nisha Pahuja, Director of The World Before Her
The Hindu / June 2014 / Cinema
Interview with Warsi Brothers, Qawwali Singers
The Hindu / June 2014 / Music
A comment on arangetrams and their purpose
The Hindu / July 2013 / Dance
Short interview with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Santoor player
The Hindu / August 2013 / Music
An analysis of online music learning as a model
Friday Review, The Hindu / July 2013 / Music
Interview with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Sarod player
The Hindu / June 2013 / Music
Interview with Victor Bannerjee, Actor
The Hindu / June 2013 / Cinema
A feature on Mavalli (what gave the famous MTR its name)
The Hindu / August 2012 / Cities
Interview with Umesh Thenkanahalli, Kamsale artist
The Hindu / August 2012 / Performance
Interview with Priti Patel, Manipuri Dancer
The Hindu / June 2012 / Dance
Interview with Mandya Ramesh, Actor and Theatre person
The Hindu / May 2012 / Theatre
Interview with Shreekantham Nagendra Sastry, Carnatic vocalist
The Hindu / May 2012 / Music
On dancer Bijayini Satpathy and her relationship with Nrityagram
The Hindu / April 2012 / Dance
A piece on the plight and future of recording studios in Bangalore
The Hindu / April 2012 / Music
Interview with Praveen Kumar, Bharatanatyam Dancer and Ustad Bismillah Khan Awardee
The Hindu / March 2012 / Dance
The operative model of the WHAD, an NGO, was formed with the intention of moving away from other models that worked on giving loans to vulnerable people. The money lender approach would not lead to empowerment, the organisation believed.
The Hindu / March 2012 / Cities
On how the first major source of water for the city of Bangalore is bone dry
The Hindu / April 2012 / Cities
Those who are genuinely interested will find their way to a concert no matter where it is, says Hindustani musician Parameshwar Hegde
The Hindu / February 2012 / Music
The objective for the evening was cut-and-dried: to perform in front of an audience that was not very familiar with the opera. And Bangalore, where opera is yet to make inroads, turned up for the performance enthusiastically.
City and Neighbourhood, The Hindu / April 2012 / Theatre
My interview with M.S.Sathyu
www.colloquium.net / February 2011 / Cinema
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