In recent years, puppets, masks, and objects have been the focus of Broadway musicals, postmodernist theory, political spectacle, (less)

It examines the kinds of performing artistes and their contributions (less)

The book includes a wealth of pictures and photographs (less)

This book highlights how communities and individuals in the Americas define themselves as both similar to and different from others (less)

"Rasa" is taste, essence, flavor. How is it possible that a word used to describe a delicious masala can also be used to critique a Bharata Natyam performance? Rasa expresses the primary goals of performing arts in India in all the major literary, philosophical, and aesthetic texts, and it provides the cornerstone of the oral traditions of transmission.

It is also essential to the study and production of sculpture, architecture, and painting. Yet its primary referent is cuisine.

This book articulates the religious sensibility underlying the traditional performing arts as well as other applications of rasa and examines the relationships between the arts and religion in India today (less)

Also included are incisive interventions on culturally conditioned worldviews in human resource management and their impact on organizational performance. Overall, this volume will help practising managers to integrate and benchmark the best practices in order to make their organization performance oriented (less)

This book highlights how communities and individuals in the Americas define themselves as both similar to and different from others (less)

The government control also kept the issue under wraps for a long time, understanding the enormity of the problem only at the advent of economic reforms in early nineties. The book elucidates the various measures taken by Reserve Bank of India to Control NPAs over the last decade and a half and critically analyses the success obtained in containing the same.

It also provides an international perspective by highlighting the problem of NPAs in other South East Asian countries and the measures taken by them to solve the issue (less)

As a strict Guru, a renowned dancer with a rare blend of virile energy and great sensitivity, a choreographer and composer, a writer, a passionate advocate for the rights of dancers. Dhananjayan combines in himself many different facets.

Dhananjayan's thoughts on diverse subjects are brought together for the; first time in this book. Since these writings range over a period of time, one can see growth of the artiste himself, in his approach to and understanding of various issues such as ways to combat terrorism, the linking of rivers or the creation of a united Bharata (less)