Tag: young
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Young Bharatanatyam dancer Sivashree Kumar showcases her training and technique
Read Latest News Sivashree Kumar at Sri Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha in Chennai | Photo Credit: S. R. Raghunathan Sivashree Kumar, a disciple of R. Vijay Madhavan, began her solo recital at Sri Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha’s Bharat Nritya Utsav 2025, with ‘Sadashiva Kumara’, a composition by Papanasam Sivan, in raga Suddha Saveri and Adi tala. The…
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Young dancer Aishwarya Balasubramanian impresses with her mature approach
Read Latest News Aishwarya Balasubramanian | Photo Credit: Iyappan Arumugam Aishwarya Balasubramanian is a well-rounded dancer whose performance shows her growing maturity as an artiste. Starting with an interesting Pushpanjali in ragamalika in Adi, composed by violinist Easwar Ramakrishnan, and visualised with offbeat usi sollus that were intoned perfectly by nattuvanar Jayashree Ramanathan, she displayed…
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Young adult series Ziddi Girls to stream on Prime Video
Read Latest News A poster for ‘Ziddi Girls’ Ziddi Girls, a young adult drama series about four Gen-Z college-goers, will stream on Prime Video from February 27, the makers have announced. Directed by Shonali Bose and written and co-directed by Vasant Nath and Neha Veena Sharma, the series follows four friends commencing life at a…
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Young Bharatanatyam dancer Meera Sreenarayanan impresses with her imaginative apparoach
Read Latest News Meera Sreenarayanan performing at The Music Academy | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani The understanding between a singer and a dancer, where both respond and resonate to each other’s manodharma, results in a performance high on aesthetics. Meera Sreenarayanan’s recital at The Music Academy’s dance festival was one such. From the first piece,…
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Young Bharatanatyam artiste Manasa Sriram impresses with her sincere approach
Read Latest News Manasa Sriram. | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan Manasa Sriram, a disciple of Mahalakshmi Ashwin, began her recital at the Pongal Dance Festival 2025 with the invocatory hymn from the Thirumanthiram, ‘Ainthu karathanai’, in praise of Ganesha. She then moved to a Ganesha Alarippu set to Tisra Nadai Adi tala, showcasing the essence…
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Tamil Nadu’s young organic farmers forge new paths
Read Latest News Farmer’s friend Organic farming often requires round-the-clock work. This is apart from extra care in the form of natural inputs added to the soil to aid in crop growth. V Dharani Vendhan makes the process easier for farmers by concocting these soil inputs himself. The 33-year-old is based in Aarani in Tiruvannamalai…
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Young Scientist Award for CIFT scientist
Read Latest News Aniesrani Delfiya, a scientist at ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), has been honoured with the prestigious Young Scientist Award by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences for 2025. Ms. Delfiya was chosen for the award for her contributions to Agricultural Engineering and Technology, said a communication. The award, which includes a…
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Young Carnatic musicians chronicle their challenging journey to the concert circuit
Read Latest News If you scan the Margazhi music schedule of sabhas in Chennai, you will find the names of several Gen Z artistes in the morning, mid-morning and afternoon slots. This is definitely the most heart-warming note of the Season. It augurs well for the future of Carnatic music, despite the many naysayers. It’s…
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Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost
Read Latest News In this photo released by the Mammoth Museum at the Russian North-Eastern Federal University on Monday, December 23, 2024, University’s Scientists show the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia’s Siberia. | Photo Credit: AP Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably…
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Three young musicians explore the intricate bond between lakshana and lakshya in Carnatic music
Read Latest News Sriranjani Santhanagopalan, G. Ravikiran, and Bharat Sundar | Photo Credit: K.Pichumani Day 8 at The Music Academy witnessed a packed audience for the second panel discussion of the Academic Sessions, centered on the intriguing topic, ‘Lakshana and Lakshya: A Contested Relationship.’ The panel featured insightful contributions from Sriranjani Santhanagopalan, G. Ravikiran, and…
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IFFK 2024: ‘Young Hearts’, a heart-warming teenage gay romance
Read Latest News A scene from Young Hearts. Sometimes, the most gentle turns in a film can create a considerable emotional impact on the viewer. The filmmaker need not necessarily move a mountain to achieve that. Belgian filmmaker Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts, with its fresh take on teenage gay romance, is filled with several such…
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IFFK 2024: ‘Young Hearts’, a heart-warming teenage gay romance
Read Latest News A scene from Young Hearts. Sometimes, the most gentle turns in a film can create a considerable emotional impact on the viewer. The filmmaker need not necessarily move a mountain to achieve that. Belgian filmmaker Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts, with its fresh take on teenage gay romance, is filled with several such…
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Margazhi | Akkara adisil and young love
Read Latest News If Kolkata enjoys its afternoon raga, Mumbai shines brightest in the evenings, and Delhi parties through the night, morning is Chennai’s finest hour. Especially during Margazhi — the season between mid-December and mid-January when the city, perennially hot and prickly, is rewarded with gentle coastal winds, dewy mornings, music, dance, and food. Women…
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Young nagaswaram and thavil artistes have turned the spotlight on these instruments
Read Latest News Unlike many great nagaswaram and thavil players of the Isai Vellalar community of the composite Thanjavur district, who dissuaded their children from learning the art, nagaswaram artiste T.C. Karunanidhi was particular that his two sons learn the instrument and carry forward the family tradition. But, he and wife Maheswari made sure it…
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Young veena players reinvent the instrument for a wider reach
Read Latest News Ramana Balachandran. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Picturise a concert hall filled with listeners maintaining pin-drop silence. A round of speedy kalpanaswaras are being rendered on the veena with some rigorous meetus and it is almost time for the final swara. It is one of those days when a particularly puzzling kanakku…
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Co-living spaces: what young professionals want
Read Latest News The housing landscape has witnessed a paradigm shift due to the advent of fully managed rental accommodations and co-living spaces. This revolutionary concept is growing popular among millennials and Gen Z by offering a seamless, reliable, hassle-free living experience that resonates with their dynamic and modern lifestyles. Co-living players these days are…
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Old Mahabalipuram Road, a late-night food haven for the young and old
Read Latest News Active at night: The area is home to IT companies and start-ups. Many of their employees step out for a snack at night. | Photo Credit: Sangeetha Kandavel V.M. Food Street on Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) has emerged as a vibrant night destination for college students, information technology professionals, and food enthusiasts. …
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Young Indian adults coping with health issues post-pandemic
Read Latest News We’ve entered a post-COVID world, but one that has left India’s youth with a set of health challenges in its wake. A generation of under-25s saw major milestones through the pandemic: some became adults over the last three years, some graduated, some got their first jobs. Health, both mental and physical became…
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Merck-Tinkle comic book targets healthy eating practices among young readers
Read Latest News School students at the Safe Food, Safe Future event with Dr. Veena Panicker, Head – BioMonitoring India, Merck Life Sciences and Dinesh Raveendraraju, Scientist at Merck Life Science. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Meet Captain Khau, aka Rishi, who is on a mission to demystify the microbial contamination of food during his summer vacation.…
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Janis Joplin to Liam Payne, music legends who died too young
Read Latest News (From left) Liam Payne, Janis Joplin, and Sidhu Moose Wala The untimely death of singer Liam Payne at 31 marks a tragic addition to the growing list of musicians who left the world too soon. Found dead after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Payne’s passing brings a sense…
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A young Mohiniyattam dancer chooses to portray an occult character
Read Latest News Kalyani Menon Harikrishnan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement During the incipient stages of its revival in Kerala Kalamandalam in the 1930s, Mohiniyattam anchored mainly on padams of Swati Tirunal, the maharaja who was instrumental in the resurgence of the dance form. While most of the padams had vipralambha sringaram as their leitmotif,…
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Kartik Aaryan celebrates Children’s Day with young fans at Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 screening
Read Latest News Kartik Aaryan | Photo Credit: SAKCHAI LALIT Bollywood star Kartik Aaryan made Children’s Day memorable for young fans by attending a special screening of his latest hit, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3. The actor joined the celebration, which was organized exclusively for children and featured fun interactions and lively performances. Aaryan, who reprises his…
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In conversation with the young cast of the Malayalam film, ‘Mura’
Read Latest News Muhammed Musthafa’s Mura, with all its tropes of a gangster drama — revenge, high-end action and bloodshed, is going steady at the box office. And the cast, especially the crop of young and new faces, has come in for unanimous praise. The riveting narrative, set in Thiruvananthapuram, is about four college dropouts from underprivileged…
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Aikyam brings together senior and young dancers for its two-day annual festival
Read Latest News Shabana and Shafeekudeen at the two-day Aikyam festival. | Photo Credit: RAGU R Shafeekudeen and Shabana, sishyas of Natyacharyas V.P. and and Shanta Dhananjayan, performed on day two of the Aikyam festival, held recently. The dancers, coordinated in muted shades of green and mustard, were as pleasing as the Kalakshetra bani that…