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...single bamboo flute and the wailng chant of a solo male voice. Against a plain black backdrop swirled brilliantly costumed dancers, unfolding exotic tales of lust and vengeance, ecstasy and evil. The occasion: the Broadway opening, prior to a U.S. tour, of the Indian dance group headed by Shanta Rao (rhymes with...
...Dancing Eyebrow. For centuries, the Indian dance lay fallow in half-forgotten temples. But as India rose to national consciousness and independence, the art was deliberately revived by such devotees as Dancer Rao...
...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...
...smiling at the crowd and pressing his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. "You don't want to take risks?" he told his agitated followers. "Then don't take them." Nehru thought that the would-be assassin, a 33-year-old Hindu ricksha boy called Babu Rao Laxman Kohale, was simply "a cranky person...
...Communists had lost ground especially among Andhra's farmers, tenants and literate white-collar workers, who had once been disposed to support them. "I was attracted to Communism," said Krishna Rao, a bank clerk, "because the Reds supported our wage demands and condemned bankers. I participated in meetings where people shouted 'Death to Capitalists,' but I was shocked when I found out that my own household help was shouting 'Death to Exploiters of Toiling Domestic Servants...