ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
May 7, 2026
Gaurav Rohitbhai Umretiya, Dr. Sunil H Der
Akhara peshwais at the 2025 Prayagraj Maha Kumbh grand processions of 13 akharas (7 Shaiva, 3 Vaishnava, 2 Udasin, 1 Sikh) embody Sanatan Dharma as kinetic epistemology, transforming Triveni Sangam's chaos into eternal order for 50 crore pilgrims. Saffron-clad Nagas thunder forth, dhwaj snapping (Juna's red Hanuman "Jai Shri Ram"), trishuls skyward, vibhuti-smeared torsos gleaming amid damru...
ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
April 3, 2026
Surendra P. Singh, Lohans Kumar Kalyani, Manju Singh et al.
There has been increasing research on the application of yoga and meditation to the composition of performing arts as one of the comprehensive approaches to creativity, stage performance, and well-being of the performers. Exposing the works of art to intense physical exercises, emotional outbursts, and excessive psychological stress, tend to affect the performance, as well as their health in...
ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
April 3, 2026
Supriya S. Patil, Rajesh Raikwar, Suraj Bhan et al.
Education in arts is important in the development of creativity, arts expression and communication of culture. Nevertheless, the conventional training of performing arts tends to emphasize more on the development of technical skills and the preparation of performance to the exclusion of the physical and psychological health of performers. This study examines how yoga and mindfulness can be...
ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
March 27, 2026
Nidhi Vats
In India, indigenous knowledge systems are complicated epistemic worlds that are difficult to translate into textual archives or codified information. This paper suggests that this kind of knowledge is preserved through embodied practices: ritual healing, martial movement, artisanal labour, ecological stewardship, and spirit-mediated communication, which serve as living archives. It uses...
ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
December 19, 2025
Jay Vasani, Savita Deogirkar
This paper explores the mystical themes in the poetry of Mirabai and Tulsidas, two of the most powerful voices of the Indian Bhakti movement. It studies how each poet expresses devotion, longing, and union with the divine in their own way. Mirabai’s poetry is emotional and fearless. She speaks of Krishna as a lover, a friend, and the only one who matters (One who is infinite: a cosmic energy)....
ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
June 30, 2024
D. J. M. Arputhamani
This paper attempts to discuss the thematic dialecticism in Arun Joshi’s Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel The Last Labyrinth which is one of the complicated and interesting novel motifs found in it. The story is about the unstable consciousness of the protagonist, hyper rational, western educated, millionaire industrialist Som Bhaskar, which is split between secular materialism and latent...
ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
January 31, 2024
V. P. Prasaja, M. Saji
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and robotics has reshaped contemporary narratives, prompting a re-evaluation of what it means to be human. Richard Powers’s Galatea 2.2 explores the intersections of artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive science, and posthuman consciousness, engaging deeply with the philosophical and technological implications of human-like...