Theater in Ancient India and Greece – In Comparison with the Modern Times

As much as society loves art, it ignores its artists. Ask any artist and here I use the word artist in a wider sense, and she’ll tell you how impossible it is to pay bills doing art. For theater/film makers there More...

The perils of textual transmission: decapitation and recapitulation

Prologue Gaṇeśa as Vyāsa’s scribe has found popular but not critical acceptance. Yet, complicated issues regarding the text, its transmission,and its reception are revealed by paying attention to this story. More...

Hierarchy of Rasa-s in Vyāsa’s Mahābhārata: Themes, Forms and Aesthetics

Is there a singular, supreme, overarching conclusion – superseding all others – which the composer(s)/compiler(s) of the ‘epic’ text of Mahābhārata (the one traditionally attributed to Vyāsa) had intended More...

Sensible Cinema and Natyashastra

Last few days, cinema lovers have been reading Bahubali 2 movie reviews one after the other. There are few other reasons listed, but most reviews are about this: Bahubali fan reviews are about unapologetic and fantastic More...