Art

Recently, we came across the profile of Sudhindra Holla, Country Manager, India and SAARC, Axis Communications. He is a well-known stalwart in the surveillance and security industry. He is also an avid reader, a yoga practitioner and Yakshagana (a folk dance from Karnataka) dancer. Very few people know about Yakshagana. ...

It has been some time that we at A Journalist Reveals wrote about artists. We recently found Mandeera Manish, who is a Gold Medallist in her field of Bharatanatyam. She agreed to do an interview with us and this is what she had to say for our questions: When did ...

A friend contacted A Journalist Reveals to give some coverage for his friend’s Martial Arts’ Workshop. With the Navaratri underway, neither of us could attend the workshop. Then, we decided that we should post the interview of the Master. Meet Master Suresh M Nair. He professes late Bruce Lee’s martial ...

Kishori Amonkar is no more. It is not easy to believe as I had met Kishori Amonkar Madam a few years ago for an interview for a local art magazine. She was an amicable and affectionate lady. I wanted to interview her for A Journalist Reveals. I lost the chance ...

Despite a birth defect in her left foot, Aparna Mishra struggled to reach the position of the director of a Kathak institute. Armed with a management degree and a post-graduation in Kathak, she worked with corporate companies while running her own institute, Kala Saadhna. Here is a small tête-à-tête with the Kathak ...

Recently, young artists from IIT and NIT came together to produce a music video under the aegis of the production house, Purplehed. The video is their creative rendition offering tribute to late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The music video Burn Like the Sun can be seen on the Purplehed VEVO Channel on ...

She did her under graduation in English but changed faculties, from Humanities to Performing Arts, to do a Masters in Music. But she insists that she was into music from a very young age. Born in Jammu, this classical singer finds it fun if she could sing for the movies. ...

She wants to learn instrumental music as well after conquering the vocal category. That’s the classical singer Brinda Roy Chowdhury for you. Having had her Taalim on various forms of music like Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrulgeeti, Atulprasadi, Rajanikanto, Geet and pure classical from Ms. Krishna Dasgupta, she was also trained in ...

“Of all the achievements, the association all of us at Instyle are most proud of is the one we have forged with the Blind People’s Association (BPA), a well-known NGO based in Ahmedabad,” says Ahmedabad-based dance choreographer and teacher Hiren Patel. A member of International Dance Council (CID), Hiren Patel ...

Over the years, the field of performing arts, Indian Classical Dance in particular, has changed, in terms of learning as well as performing. Almost all the revered Gurus spoken to, regret the loss of the Guru-shishya tradition. They cite too much academics as the culprit. Also a veteran in the ...