Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

The Friday List: From environmental storytelling to Kathakali recital, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.

Aika to the Baika: Verse meets social critique in new lavani about how police can better deal with women's complaints

As its refrain suggests, Aika to the Baika prompts the viewer to listen, to really listen to women. Though it is infamous for indulging only in themes like desire, sensuality, love and longing, lavani has in fact for centuries been employed as a tool for social messaging. Aika to the Baika is a modern iteration of the samajik lavani, a 'lyrical banter'.

Mandakini Trivedi on the meaning of style, Mohiniattam's abhinaya and the evolving guru-shishya parampara

Mohiniattam, says Mandakini Trivedi, borrows extensively from theatrical abhinaya or the art of expression employed in theatre, and its style is a very wonderful combination of introverted pure dance movements and a very vibrant, vivacious and stylised mind.

Kannada theatre personality S Raghunandana declines Sangeet Natak Akademi Award as protest against political atmosphere

S Raghunandana was among the list of nine eminent artists who were selected for the theatre section of this year's Sangeet Natak Akademi awardees.

Kathak dancer Rujuta Soman on artistic legacies, her guru Rohini Bhate, and the doha dedicated to her

The Kathak dancer, who has been running the Rujuta Soman Cultural Academy for the last 18 years, says matter-of-factly that opting to pursue a career as a classical artiste was never on her radar, yet, it is hard to pinpoint a time when Kathak was not a part of her life.

Grammy winner Sandeep Das mulls why he was never given a Sangeet Natak Akademy Award

Tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das won his first-ever Grammy Award in the Best World Music category last week for 'Sing Me Home'.

Heisnam Kanhailal, Manipuri theatre great and Padma Bhushan awardee, passes away

Eminent Manipuri theatre personality Heisnam Kanhailal passed away at his Langol Tarung residence in Imphal West district following a brief illness, his family said. He was 75.