Publications

Contemporary dance scholarship has increasingly turned toward decolonial perspectives, yet much of this work continues to operate within conceptual frameworks that separate theory from practice and aesthetics from embodied experience. This paper addresses this limitation by revisiting the Nāṭyaśāstra as an Indic framework for understanding methods in dance education.

Contemporary dance scholarship has increasingly turned toward decolonial perspectives, yet much of this work continues to operate within conceptual frameworks that separate theory from practice and aesthetics from embodied experience. This paper addresses this limitation by revisiting the Nāṭyaśāstra as an Indic framework for understanding methods in dance education.

A perspective article about the need to re-position and re-think India's culture strategy as geopolitical strategy. Few nations possess cultural and philosophical depth comparable to India, yet few nations with such depth have underutilized it so profoundly in strategic terms. Indian culture is frequently projected abroad through festivals, cuisine, dance performances, yoga celebrations, tourism campaigns, handicraft exhibitions, and diaspora events. While these remain important expressions of national identity, they are often deployed as isolated spectacles rather than as components of a larger geopolitical architecture.’

This article presents two Hoysala temples where the rays of the rising sun on equinoxes illuminate the idol within the sanctum.