Word: bharata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Indians smoldered, they really could not complain. Bharata was a legendary Hindu hero so revered that his name became the Sanskrit word for all India, and after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States." Even today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print...
...York last week, besides Kathakali (about 1,000 years old in some forms and hence a Johnny-come-lately), the Rao troupe also danced the nearly 4,000-year-old Bharata Natyam (the Drama of Bharata). High point of the program: Mohirti Attam (the Dance of the Enchantress), in which Dancer Rao proved herself a virtuoso performer. This dance had become so corrupted and eroticized by courtesans that it had been banned from the temples. Shanta, swathed in dazzling silk, danced it in its uncorrupted style, although her weaving, swaying interpretation was still sexy in a highly stylized...