{"id":2262,"date":"2005-09-22T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2262"},"modified":"2005-09-22T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T19:36:11","slug":"washington_monu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/washington_monu\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netsap.org\/saltaf2005\/\"><img alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Saltaf.gif\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a>My favorite&nbsp;festival with a faux-Muslim name starts in just a week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netsap.org\/saltaf2005\">SALTAF<\/a>, the South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival, will indulge your culture-vulture proclivities in D.C. this October 1st weekend (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poojamakhijani.com\">Pooja<\/a>). It sounds remarkably highbrow for a NetSAP\/NetIP event.<\/p>\n\n<p>The list of <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=numinous\">numinaries<\/a> includes poet filmmaker Deepa&nbsp;Mehta, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002129.html\">Vijay Seshadri<\/a>, Nadeem Aslam <em>(Maps for Lost Lovers),<\/em> Anita Desai, M.G. Vassanji <em>(Toronto South Asian Review<\/em> and my fave title ever, <em>Amriika)<\/em> and Shyam Selvadurai. With that literati-centric lineup, maybe they should just name it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001075.html\">SAJA<\/a>&nbsp;Delhi and call it a day <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/wink.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0><\/p>\n\n<p>This documentary on the parallels between kathak and flamenco looks interesting:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p><em>Firedance<\/em> by Vishnu Mathur<\/p>\n<p>Two renowned Toronto performers&#8230; each [tell how]&#8230; Kathak and flamenco shared an ancient history. Soon they started working together&#8230; Joanna and Esmeralda demonstrate in the documentary how similar the foot and hand movements of these two dance forms are &#8211; and they trace the evolution of the differences that came about in the course of time; Flamenco using shoes for sound and subtle nuance, Kathak bells and bare feet for its rhythmic expressions. <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netsap.org\/saltaf2005\/agenda.htm\">the festival schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite&nbsp;festival with a faux-Muslim name starts in just a week. SALTAF, the South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival, will indulge your culture-vulture proclivities in D.C. this October 1st weekend (thanks, Pooja). It sounds remarkably highbrow for a NetSAP\/NetIP &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/washington_monu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}