The classical dance idioms of India use energy in ways as distinctive as the regions they come from. One hurls it out from the body like bolts of lightning. Another drives it downward in bursts of ...

As the full moon of Agrahayan rises, the Manipuri community in greater Sylhet prepares to celebrate its most cherished festival -- Maharas Leela, or Ras Utsab. What began centuries ago as a spiritual ...

The graceful movements of Manipuri dance left the audience at Kala Ghoda Art Festival spellbound The distant state of Manipur is perhaps best known to Indians for its extremely graceful, delicate and ...

NOWHERE in India do people practice the arts of dance, drama, music, and their combined form, opera, so widely as in the princely state of Manipur. Perhaps, too, no other area of India has been quite ...

Members of the Manipuri community in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar are passing busy days with preparations for the Maha Rasleela. Sounds of drums, ceremonial bells, songs and dance rhythms have ...