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An art in search of its roots
Indian folk theater, which derives its form from the Jatra, Tamasha, Nautanki, Bhavai, Yakshagana and Therukuttu, is gradually disintegrating...
UNESCO Courier, 11/01/97 by Romain Maitra · More from publication -
From selfhood to salvation
The human body in the Indian context is an integration of various complex mental and physical processes. Hindu philosophy teaches that a person has...
UNESCO Courier, 04/01/97 by Romain Maitra · More from publication -
India: the dancer's dilemma
Indian classical dance is very conservative in style since it equates dance with sacred ritual. The stylized gestures and sequences reenact stories...
UNESCO Courier, 01/01/96 by Romain Maitra · More from publication -
The first Indian studios
The first Indian motion pictures were produced in and around the port cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. Film studios which had a tremendous...
UNESCO Courier, 07/01/95 by Romain Maitra · More from publication -
Song of India
IN any cross-cultural transfer, complete idea-systems never travel easily. Only fragments tend to be transmitted. in the case of the influence of...
UNESCO Courier, 03/01/91 by Romain Maitra · More from publication -
In the realm of the senses divine - Hindu and Buddhist arts - Between the Visible and the Invisible
RO0028 RO0028 TRADITIONAL Indian art is primarily religious. Everything in it has a divine meaning and no aspect of life is treated for its own...
UNESCO Courier, 12/01/90 by Romain Maitra · More from publication
