Kathak is unique in having both Hindu and Muslim gharanas and cultural elements. Kathak performances include Urdu Ghazals and commonly use instruments brought during Mughal period. It originated in a ...

Dr. July Puthussery, associate professor at the University of Hyderabad, in his thesis titled, "Idiom and Ideology: A Study ...

Dance is an integral part of culture. It cannot be captured in a museum — except as photographs ... Monotheistic faiths associated it with idolatry. Evidence of Indian dance comes from ancient times.

Yet there was a historically significant time when art and culture, and poetry, music and dance of ancient and ‘Golden Age’ India flourished in Hindu kingdoms down south, as in the Mughal ...

In Pahari (hilly) dialect, a lion cub is called Sinhtoo, which is why performers wearing lion masks always take center stage ...

A unique cultural event is being held this October, as the traditional Indian dance-drama Kathakali makes ... audiences on ...