Dance of the slave girl

   I might never have given Bharatanatyam and the eroticism in the dance a second thought had it not been for two stories I read almost simultaneously – one that of Rukmini Devi Arundale, the dance form’s fairy godmother, and the other the legend of Arjuna, the Pandava, a character in the Mahabharata who is said [...]

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