A foundation to promote Indian classical music has been launched in New Zealand, which will endeavour to build platforms for young and upcoming talent while presenting quality performers to wider audiences in the country, a media report said.
BBC Radio 4 has appointed Indian-origin Daljit Nagra as its first poet in residence, which will see him curate a weekly programme telling stories about 20th century poetry, a media report said.
In a major departure from the past, the government on Tuesday announced a "paradigm shift" in the format of the annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD), its engagement with the diaspora, with the mega jamboree to be held every alternate year and an event "focused on outcomes" to be held every other year.
Swati Ravi, a high honours student at Greenhill School, Dallas, performed her Bharatnatyam arangetram recently in Texas, to a 700-strong audience mostly comprising NRIs. Dallas hosts around 25 such Indian dance debuts each year ranging from Bharatnatyam to Kuchipudi and Odissi.