I recently complained to a friend that Indian writing in English often uses a voice curated for the Western reader, overexplaining or exoticizing local phrases and idiosyncrasies. It can get tiresome ...

Nautch girls were significant cultural figures in pre-colonial India, though the term ‘nautch girls’ is a colonial construct, a possessive English word appended to thousands of years of tradition of ...

Pran Nevile's book is no intellectual heavyweight though he claims to have examined 'every factor — historical, socio-economic and cultural — that contributed to the rise and fall of the nautch girl' ...

A woman in labour, caught between life and death, chooses her own survival over the unborn child. Manish Gaekwad’s Nautch Boy: A Memoir of My Life in the Kothas opens not in the comfort of nostalgia ...

In Mughal Emperor Akbar's time, Rupmati, a dancing girl of Saharanpur, 'more beautiful than the moon, the tulip and early dawn of the spring', was famous all over north India. After watching her ...

A pre-Holi bash at the Jaipur district collectorate has left the Rajasthan administration red-faced. JAIPUR: A pre-Holi bash at the Jaipur district collectorate has left the Rajasthan administration ...

Music is the soul of Purva Naresh’s oeuvre and it is has been evident in her three plays staged in Delhi from time to time. In her latest offering, “Bandish 20-20000Hz”, which was presented at Kamani ...

Pran Nevile's book is no intellectual heavyweight though he claims to have examined 'every factor — historical, socio-economic and cultural — that contributed to the rise and fall of the nautch girl' ...