A Longing of Being
“No less than one's life is needed / if the call of the Distant One is to be heeded.”
“No less than one's life is needed / if the call of the Distant One is to be heeded.”
This paper was first published in the journal Herald of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (est. 1889) no. 53, year 2025, pp. 15-56, and it is republished here with the journal’s kind permission. The poem it discusses, known as ‘Hasanaginica’, which originated in the seventeenth century,...
A study by a researcher and dance practitioner of Bharat Natyam, explores the iconography of the sacred dance tradition in India as a vehicle for self-transformation. Her book is reviewed by Professor Neela Bhattacharya Saxena.