Musician Nadaka on the geet-taar a string instrument he crafted his fascination for Indian classical music

Musician Nadaka on the geet-taar a string instrument he crafted his fascination for Indian classical music

With a cheery  vanakam, musician Nadaka settles down in the lobby of Hotel Residency in Thiruvananthapuram to talk about his music and the geet-taar, a 24-string acoustic instrument that he created. In Thiruvananthapuram, for a concert,  Geet-Taar & Taal, with Illyas Khan on the sarangi and Chandrashekhar Ravindra Gandhi on the tabla, the French-Canadian musician who lives in Pondicherry, says he […]

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Ekalavya Performing Arts’ Kalakriti 2023 celebrates mime and theatre

Ekalavya Performing Arts’ Kalakriti 2023 celebrates mime and theatre

Director Bodhisatta Sarkar  | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ekalavya Performing Arts (EPA), a theatre group in Bengaluru, presents Kalakriti 2023 — a collage of mimes and drama directed and designed by theatre actor and director Bodhisatta Sarkar. The two-part festival is called Mute and Unmute. “Some parts are mime and others theatre,” explains the director. The mime […]

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