Group of Odissi Dancers

Why I love India # 11: Odissi Dance

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March 28th 2011
I am sitting in a theatre in chaotic unorganized India. I have just ridden through traffic which, were it not so seriously dangerous and life-threatening, is a complete joke. My lungs again absorbed another day of carbon monoxide exhaust, dust and any manner of other toxic fumes. I have trodden in waste and garbage on the streets that, were one to know the origins of, would make one wretch. And sp ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more