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Music, Dance & Literature
Where painting meets the other arts: ragas, dance, poetry and the stories they share.
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Is the Kama Sutra the Most Misunderstood Text of All Time?
The world knows it as an ancient sex manual. It is really a third-century guide to the art of living: to pleasure, the arts, courtship and marriage. Here is what Vatsyayana actually wrote, and how one Victorian translation changed the way the world reads it.
Aesthetics & Ideas
What Is Rasa? The Indian Theory of How Art Makes You Feel
About two thousand years ago, an Indian treatise on theatre asked the question every artist still asks: what exactly happens inside us when a work of art moves us? Its answer, rasa, went on to shape Indian drama, dance, music and painting.
Love & Relationships
The Eight Heroines: Ashta Nayika in Indian Painting and Dance
Waiting, longing, quarrelling, setting out through a storm: classical India described eight states of a heroine in love, and for centuries poets, painters and dancers gave each one a face.
Music, Dance & Literature
Ragamala: When Music Became Painting
A garland of ragas: how Indian painters gave each musical mode a face, a season, a time of day and a story, and where to see the finest sets today.