Tag: Kalidasa
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Season Transitions With Kalidasa.
(For Blogchatter’s theme “Seasonal Transitions,” this piece reflects how outer seasons, human emotion, agrarian rhythm, and spiritual awareness intertwine — and how art becomes the bridge back to our forgotten harmony with life.)
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Bathukamma@Durgashtami.
Sometime back I was researching the nature related festivals in southern India. The floral tributes of Onam ruled the roast, somewhere between the lots I found a lesser known festival of Telangana One very interesting festival I came across was called the Bathukamma, and it is celebrated in the state of Telangana. This is a…
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Following the nature’s cycle, — earth living.
Ritu samhara by Kalidasa is favourite of mine where each season is described as a pair of lovers. Then there is Baramas, both Meera, and by Ravidas that drift into the tradition of Sufism where with the divine-devotee and seasons. My personal god and theatre guru Ratan Thiyam, presented Ritu samahara, as the way Kalidas…
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Physical Intuitiveness,
Physical Intuitiveness, I am now teaching my students Rtu Samhara of Kalidasa, one interesting aspect of it is that Kalidasa, talks of the Rtu-Chakra and how all the animals are in synchrony with it, except man who with passing time moves away from nature. coming to think of it the human experience is removed from…
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