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February 22, 2011 at 11:04 am
Hai Ashwini,
It was great reading you blog and the way you chide people from every category. The subtle mesage i could read is ‘there is nothing called saturation in learning as till the last breath one can learn’. anita Ratnam gave a performance in university of hyderabad with all her experiments…it was disastrous in terms of dance and techniques..the crowd which knows nothing but che Guevara was cheering her beacuse of the movements…ironically she thinks that as acceptance…some rasikas around were discussiing that ‘we never thought anita can be so disastrous’. The review in Hindu says..she was awesome and her performance was so good that the audience were spelbound…so on and so forth….one dancer can always learn from other dancer is the crux of the story…leave ego and go…
May 26, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Hi Ashwini, I tumbeld into your website while searching for Bharatanatyam dress. I like your critical writing. But what is striking is you are venomous towards NRI Bharatanatyam dancers. As if every one is drug addidcts and brain dead people.How come. Being strong opinionated is great but such utter and malicious comments on people who are putting their energies on their love towards the great art form is unwarranted. May be you had a bad experience with some NRIs but your grudge towards all of THEM is unbearble. It makes almost your posts very biased and bunch of lies.
April 27, 2012 at 2:41 am
Wow! I read your blog posts and I was left wondering why you are so vindictive toward every dancer. I am yet to see a dance video of you dancing (if at all you do). Maybe that might be a good indication of whether you can judge people so harshly. I know people with strong opinions but your posts just leave a bad taste in my mouth.