scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Saturday, October 25, 2025
TopicOdissi

Topic: Odissi

Juhu beach to Kailash Mansarovar — Protima Bedi’s fearless life. ‘I have broken every rule’

Protima Bedi was a model, Odissi dancer and sanyasin before a landslide claimed her in August 1998. In one of her last letters, she wrote she was ‘finally at peace’.

Swan Lake meets Odissi & pakhawaj in Germany. It was a conversation, not fusion

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake met Odissi with a new narrative drawn from Nala and Damyanti, the ancient Indian epic of exile, devotion, and reunion from the Mahabharata.

Gorima Hazarika, one of first women pioneers of male-dominated Sattriya dance, dies at 83

Apart from Sattriya dance form, the Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee was also proficient in Kathak & Odissi. She set up a school for traditional dance forms in 1982 in Guwahati.

Protima Bedi — the model, dancer and ‘sanyasin’ who lived by her own rules

In her short life, Protima Bedi had a successful career, first as a model and then Odissi dancer. She refused to be put in a box, and made a name as a bold, feminist icon.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.