As the full moon of Agrahayan rises, the Manipuri community in greater Sylhet prepares to celebrate its most cherished ...

NOWHERE in India do people practice the arts of dance, drama, music, and their combined form, opera, so widely as in the princely state of Manipur. Perhaps, too, no other area of India has been quite ...

The graceful movements of Manipuri dance left the audience at Kala Ghoda Art Festival spellbound The distant state of Manipur is perhaps best known to Indians for its extremely graceful, delicate and ...

The ‘baithak’ at the Raw Mango Showroom last weekend featured a dance form rarely seen in Hyderabad — ‘Manipuri,’ originating ...

The classical dance idioms of India use energy in ways as distinctive as the regions they come from. One hurls it out from the body like bolts of lightning. Another drives it downward in bursts of ...

Manipur’s rich contribution to Indian history was lauded by Governor Ajay Kumar Balla during the state-level commemoration of ...

Award-winning dancer Sanjib Bhattacharya is presenting a Manipuri dance recital in a show titled Samarpan. He will perform two dance forms including devotional and recreational movements of the ...

According to community elders, King Bhagyachandra of Manipur first introduced the Maha Ras festival. The first Maha Ras festival outside Manipur was held in 1842 at Madhabpur in Kamalganj upazila.

According to Manipur dance history, the gracefully choreographed dance form of Raas Leela typically associated with Manipuri performance art was first introduced decades ago, sometime in 1779 by ...

Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla said on Friday that country's national song 'Vande Mataram', composed by the great patriot ...

The Commemoration of the Foundation Days of Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh ...