1999: A unique production fusing Hindi film songs with classical dance. In that special symbiosis peculiar to classical music-dance tradition and commercial films in India, songs and hymns of saints and poets are used frequently by both. For example, if a classical dancer wove a web of spiritual love through a song by Meera, the heroine of a film could also emote to the same song without that spiritual dimension.  read more »

KASTURBA - Feb 2007: Kasturba Gandhi, known affectionately as Ba, was born in 1869 and named Mohandas Gandhi in 1882. When Gandhi left for London in 1888, she did not accompany him since she was already a mother. Over the course of history she would go on to become the Ba to India’s millions. Unlike many wives of other Indian nationalists, Kasturba played her own part in public campaigns and remained integral part of the nationalist movement.  read more »

Aug 2007: When the Queen of Dance meets a pair of Dashing musicians with modern sensibilities a new wave of exciting possibilities sweeps the viewer. Pulsating rythms and haunting melody invite the Queen of dance to whirl and swirl in a riot of colorful contemporary conjugation of new and old, universal and individual dance patterns.

Breathtaking costumes and seductive eyes take the viewer to a never-before imagined land of deep emotions.  read more »

NAVDURGA Oct 2007: The nine days of Navratri festival are dedicated to the supreme power of Goddess Durga. Her battles with the dark forces in the cosmos and the victory of light over darkness is celebrated with as much fan-fare as with meditative austerities.  read more »

JAN 2008 - “ADBHUTAM” based on two incidents from the lives of two great Krishna-devotees illustrate this point. They are Jayadeva (12th century Orissa), the hindu author of Gita-Govindam and Raskhan (16th century Muslim poet from Delhi and then living in Vrindavan) author of innumerable verses soaked with deep devotion to Krishna.  read more »