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NATYASHASTRA- THE ORIGIN OF DANCE

The pen is to poetry, what the feet is to dance; Poetry is an integrated form of art, and classical dance is described as visual poetry – the foremost amalgamation of art which has been characterized by the Natya Shastra of Bharata Muni. Praised as the prime treatise of performing arts, Natya Shastra is a text that covers almost all aspects of performances and has also been vastly accepted beyond geographical boundaries.  The Natyashastra is the world's oldest treatise on performing arts. It is more than 2,500 years old. This encyclopedic work on art by Bharata  muni  is divided into 36 chapters and contains more than 6,000 verses. This is how Bharata narrates it thus: At the end of the sata yuga  and at the on-set of the  Tretayuga , people on earth got addicted to base sentiments such as excessive desire, greed, jealousy, and anger and found their state of happiness mixed with sorrow. So the  deva s, with Indra leading...

THE ITALIAN LUTYENS OF BIHAR

Emerging   from   the undergrowth in a  town   in North Bihar are   the  choice  and   frequenting stays   of a  failed to remember regal capital. However, these are no customary vestiges. The superb complex, which incorporates an amazing royal residence, a secretariat, other authoritative structures and numerous sanctuaries, flaunts fluted columns, tall pilasters, resplendent domes, complicatedly cut patios and scalloped curves planned in particularly European style yet mixed with Indian components. Rajnagar was  the seat of the Maharaja of Raj Darbhanga, in present-day Madhubani locale in Bihar. Found 50 km away from Darbhanga town and 190 km from Patna, this regal  capital was plainly worked with much love and intricate details. Developed in the mid twentieth century by a Maharaja who encircle himself with plushness, Rajnagar is presently just a sorry excuse for its self, a considerable lot of its designs diminis...