Kedar Mishra

They are peculiar in their appearance and utterance, but they are real. They do exist in flesh and blood. They walk carelessly carrying country-made guns in their back pockets in the dark…

I am not here to write a review of a dance festival. It has really become a cliché to talk about festivals, naming the dance productions and their details and mostly to be appreciative and a…

Do we really need a “classical tag” to prove that Odissi music is fundamentally different from the other two major classical Indian musical forms - Hindustani and Carnatic? Is Odissi singing…

He is not the hero, but always the opposite of it. In western aesthetics, he is called an anti-hero, but in Bharata Muni’s 'Natya Shastra' he is 'Prati Nayaka' or the proto-hero. He is the…

“To see this oddly beautiful old man float across the stage on swirling, twisting, flowing movements, the candles flickering all about him, was an unforgettable experience of magic and…

Once in an interview, she told me, “My boy, Sur is life herself! You can't simply sing her, you need to live her”.   True to her words, her music was a pure flow of life.  She was passionate…

“In the year 1958 Government of Odisha created an institution called Odisha Sahitya Akademi (OSA).  The then Culture Minister Lingaraj Panigrahi wanted me to lead the Akademi as its…

Guru Mayadhar Rout, the 91 years old Odissi exponent, was thrown out from his modest government accommodation in New Delhi by the Government of India officials and literally this great…

Naturally, Social media was flooded with condolences and memoirs on the day Prafulla Kar, the legendary music maestro of Odisha, passed away. That was expected and obvious. A musician of…

How exactly you can deal with historical events in a dance production? After all, dance is all about the mystic and artistically nuanced expression of the human body. Can we really depict a…