Kedar Mishra

The 28th edition of the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival got concluded on September 9, with a dance ballet presentation by the host team 'Srjan'. The five-day festival proved its…

Today, the stage is all set for the 28th Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra (GKCM) Award Festival at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar. 28 years ago this festival was started by none other than legendary…

It was an unusual poetic ground. Poets belonging to different socio-cultural backgrounds and from diverse time zones make a common ideological space where humanity is celebrated as…

They said it was a historic day and indeed it was. For the first time, the Odisha state cabinet sat out of the capital city of Bhubaneswar, in the temple town of Puri.  The date, December…

Those who have not heard Raghunath Panigrahi singing on the stage certainly have missed something extraordinary in their life. The way he used to play Harmonium and sing, that itself was a…

Our media says they are stars. Cameras follow them wherever they go and whatever they do. Our Desi paparazzi hunt them to get a distant shot or a sound bite. They pose like stars too. In a…

He taught us how to fall in love, deeply and relentlessly. He guided us to know the secret joy of storytelling through his immaculately crafted storylines. He was the only lush green pasture…

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…