At the age of four, Ananda Shankar Jayant began learning Bharatanatyam when a teacher spotted her and took her in. One summer vacation in Madras (today’s Chennai), when she was eight, she and her ...

At 16, Rukmini fell in love with theosophist and Anni Besant's trusted lieutenant, George Arundale and married him in 1920. Rukmini Devi was also the first woman to nominated as the member of Rajya ...

He made me feel easy enough that I could just act or be – without inhibition,” recalls actor-dancer Rukmini Vijayakumar, ...

Varnam is colour. In the Bharatanatyam repertoire, Varnam forms the main component and the central piece where all techniques and tools of the form are utilised to narrate stories behind a feeling.