How Indian classical dance celebrates love
On Valentine’s Day, four classical dancers — Navia Natarajan, N. Srikanth, Divya Devaguptapu and Amrita Lahiri write about ...
How rare musical genres link the past and the present
Indian music has a wealth of genres that have evolved and developed over the centuries. These forms have witnessed the ...
A celebration of India’s classical dance heritage at Samasrava
The capital city witnessed an enchanting evening of classical dance at Samasrava, organised by Manasija, a non-profit dedicated to promoting Indian art and culture, recently.
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Marianne Faithfull: the singer with an inimitable voice was a Romantic poet at heart
Faithfull’s final musical releases were works that incorporated Romantic poetry in different ways. She Walks in Beauty (2021) is a spoken-word album of canonical Romantic poetry by the likes of ...
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Venice in Winter, With a Poet as Our Guide
If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...
The Irish Times22d
Michael Longley obituary: Award-winning poet of emotional and intellectual depth
Ireland has lost one of its leading literary figures following the death of the multiple award-winning poet, Michael Longley. The last survivor of the Belfast triumvirate of poets which also ...
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Irish president among mourners at funeral of poet Michael Longley
The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley has taken place in Belfast. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on 22 January. The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children ...
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Poet dies in mysterious fire
Eminent Sindhi poet Allah Bux aka Dr Akash Ansari died on Saturday. He was 69. Police have opened a probe to dig out the facts behind his death apparently caused by a fire in his room. The poet ...
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Danielle Legros Georges, Boston’s second poet laureate, a beacon in the Haitian writing community, dies at 60
“She was the kind of poet who always responded to the moment,” the writer Edwidge Danticat, who also was born in Haiti, said in an interview. Danticat recalled that at one point while writing ...
An Italian’s Indian ‘Odissi’: Dr Ileana Citaristi’s remarkable journey
Her heart beats and feet tap to the rhythms of Indian classical dance. When she joins her hands together on stage, she ...
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Eminent Sindhi poet Akash Ansari laid to rest as police interrogate son
The celebrated Sindhi poet Dr Allah Bux aka Akash Ansari, who died in a controversial house fire on Saturday in Hyderabad, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard, Shaikh Umar, in Badin ...