Author: Sangeeta
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Auroville
Today we spent the day walking around Auroville, an experimental township in the state of Tamil Nadu. This experiment was conceived of in the 1930s and later developed in 1968 as a combined vision of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa otherwise known as the Mother. The vision – to create a model of “a city…
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Sunrise in Kanniyakumari
How lucky am I that my dad planned an almost 20-day trip around South India from Trivandrum to Puducherry for my mom and I. Today is day 3 of our road trip from Trivandrum to Puducherry after a 10-day Ayurvedic retreat in Trivandrum. While my parents have been bringing me and my brothers to India…
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Namami
As I sit writing this I am reflecting on an Indian Classical dance concert that I took part in yesterday evening. Over the last several years Janani has been organizing Indian Classical dance concerts in partnership with different Dalhousie student societies to raise money for various local charities. This was the first year that I…
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Dancer’s Tale – Thushara Premarajan
What started your dance journey?I remember my mother telling me that it was my aunt who first put me on stage. I was just four years old, dressed as a bride, while older children sang around me. Apparently, I had been fast asleep in my mom’s lap until it was time to go on stage—and…
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Learning to Improvise
Most recently I registered our art collective, Laya Art Collective, to become a BIPOC artist-in-residence at Halifax Dance. This opportunity comes with 100 hours of free studio space for the collective to grow its activities and scope of its work. Since deciding to leave my job in November to become a full-time artist, it has…