Cultural Scene in Thiruvananthapuram, Capital of God's Own Country

Dec 23, 2014

Manipuri dance by Suman Sarawgi and party at Mudra Festival

Suman Sarawgi and troupe at Mudra festival, Vylopilli bhavan, Trivandrum

Ms.Sarawgi will followup her performance on Monday with a lecdem on Tuesday on 'Tracing the origin of Manipuri dance- one of the oldest as well as a living tradition of India", Pity I will miss it.

Dec 21, 2014

Anupama Mohan performs Kuchipudi. Anupama had her training in Kuchipudi Art Academy Chennai

Odissi

Aloka Kanungo performs Odissi at the Mudra festival in Vylopilli Bhavan. Aloka has trained under Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, Raghunath Dutt and Mayadhar rout. She runs Shinjin Nrityalaya

Dec 20, 2014

Mohiniyattam at Vylopilli

Kalamandalam Sarawathi (not in the picture), and her disciples performed Mohiniyattam at he Vylopilli Samskriti Bhavan Koothambalam as part of the Mudra dance festival.

Keechakavadham Kathakali

Keechakavadham Part I, Kathakali at Margi Theatre, Fort, Thiruvananthapuram

Oct 23, 2014

Photo Exhibition

Yesterday, I visited an exhibition titled, 'Hues and Barks' by photographer composer, Udaybhanu, at the Lalithakala Academy gallery, Vylopilli Bhavan. Thiruvananthapuram.

The show, described as An Abstra-Photo Exhibition, is sub - titled ' An attempt to make a lightning before the thunderous axe falls'.

One would have thought that seeing 25 to 30 closeups of tree barks would have been boring. However, Udayabhanu's images were technically perfect,eye catching, with some amount of intrigue. One could play games with one's own interpretations. Inconspicuous captions on the side of the frames gave the photographer's perspective.
Above all, what came through was the photographer's deep love for nature.

Recommended for all lovers of nature, art and photography.

This is an international tour with halts in the Gulf, Calicut, Ernakulam, Thrissur and Trivandrum. The show is on till 27th at Vylopilli.

His website : www.huemenstudio.com

Aug 24, 2014

An evening stroll along East Fort

A stroll along the busy East Fort is always interesting for a photographer. Not having much else to do on a Sunday evening, I decided to do just that. Earlier, my attempt to photograph the Ganesas being got ready for the Ganesh Chathurthi was disappointing as the place was locked out. So East fort it was. I parked my car in the new parking lot opposite the Railway station on Power House road and walked. There was some Onam and Ramzan fare by the Supplyco, some handloom exhibition, a meeting of the united Hindu forum at the Putharikandam maidan. Skipping all these, I moved to ' kottakkagam'. It was mostly the vendors and their ware that caught my eye. Here are the images.

Nendran Chips

Chakka chips (jack fruit chips)

This is Peer Mohammed from Palyamkottai, TN. He runs the Padmam chip stall near the Padmanabhaswamy temple. He has got fresh Nendran and other chips ready for Onam . He has been living in Manacaud for the last 25 years.