Revisiting The Epics

It is difficult to get young, urban audiences interested in classical dance, and perhaps even more so to interest them in mythology.

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Electric Women

What if the gender equation were to be reversed so that women could not just defend themselves against violent males but also overpower them...

By The Sea

Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel, on her Pulitzer. Experimental in form, the book had thirteen chapters from different points of view a...

Nuuk Nordisk Kulturfestival: Eccentric and Out of this World!

Nuuk Nordic is a festival born in 2015 and takes place every second year, in Nuuk, Greenland. It is a contemporary art and culture festival that presents a range...

Cultural Entrepreneurship in India

India’s cultural heritage goes back over 5000 years even before the much discussed Indus Valley Civilization. Since the advent of recorded history there is enough evi...

TED Talks India Nayi Soch: Reinventing a Brand-New India

Can ideas take flight? Shah Rukh Khan’s new TV series brings a neoteric theme and TED content for a brand new audience of the mundane idiot boxes. The idea to bring &...

Kumbh Mela named Intangible Cultural Heritage By UNESCO

Kumbh Mela has been recognized by the UNESCO as an “intangible cultural heritage of humanity” for being the world’s larges...

Jazz is like the little Bee that goes from Flower to Flower

The 5th Veda session at Whistling Woods International (WWI), Mumbai held on 26th October turned out to be different this week as the students got a glimpse of the worl...

Classical Dance Stars at the Whistling Woods Cultural Workshop

"Stars trained in classical dance, like Vyjayanthimala, Waheeda Rehman, Hema Malini, Aishwarya Rai brought dignity to acting on screen for the longest time&rdq...