Ammani Ammal’s story

Dasiyattam and the first professional performances by an Indian dance troupe in Europe - 1838 1838 was a year of many events, some routine but some of greater importance. For example it was the year when the world’s first photograph of a person was taken by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of the Boulevard...
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The Tanjavur Quartet

When music and dance ruled Some months ago, we traced the route taken by exponents of Carnatic music in the Vijayanagara kingdom to Tanjore, where the Maratha Nayaks patronized them. That there were a number of music and dance forms in vogue already, is pretty clear, but with time new systems became...
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