Articles by Rituparna Pal

Rituparna Pal is a Bharatanatyam dancer, savarna, she/her, queer. Her body loves traversing time and space the Bharatanatyam way and has been in tussle with the body politics, and the subtle yet piercing discriminations practiced and propagated in dance classrooms.

I Left the Famous Dance Institute and Learnt to Love Bharatanatyam Again

April 14, 2023

Words scraped against my brain as I Iay down, exhausted, in my stark white hostel room. I tried to find comfort in the lingering smell of the oil my roommate was massaging her knees with—that smell spelt care. Setting my alarm for five the next morning, my innards groaned.