In part one ‘He is a playboy’, he had said, shaking his head. ‘Such genius but such vice! Too many women. He lives his life on the edge’. ‘Poor Arjun’, Krishna observed. ‘He did not take that failed love affair lightly’. Sympathy was like a weed. It could grow through the tiniest of cracks on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bharatanatyam’
Subhadraharanam – Part II
Posted in Fiction, tagged Adapted story, Arjuna, Bharatanatyam, Feminist Fiction, Fiction, Mahabharata, Subhadra on December 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dance of the slave girl
Posted in Women and the Performing arts, tagged Bharatanatyam, Devadasi, Rukmini Devi Arundale on September 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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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