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From Below the Ivory Tower

Dance and Society 

Pulse has commissioned this new series with the dance student in mind. 

‘…truly critical deliberations on culture in India… are virtually non-existent.’

Not Appropriation...

Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel suggests that we are attracted to foreign cultures not because of their exotic content but because they express some aspect of one’s innermost yearnings – ‘what we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger fo

We Stand Against Casteism in Indian Performing Arts

By now many will be aware of the furore that broke out in Chennai (with ripples felt globally) over the Music Academy’s Sangita Kalanidhi award to Carnatic musician T M Krishna and the reaction by several musicians including the Gayatri sisters to boycott t

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