In India, dance acts as a powerful vehicle for politics, philosophy, festivals, rituals, identity, and entertainment. But what kind of dance competitions among gods, apsaras, and royal dancers are ...

Frédérique Apffel-Marglin was first a student of Indian classical dance (Orissi style) and did field research among the temple dancers of Jagannath Temple in Odisha in Eastern India in the mid-1970s.

World bid 2024 adieu at the midnight stroke on the intervening night of December 31 and January 1 and welcomed 2025 with ...