Press coverage and media features

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 22 JAN, 2026

Why Anita Ratnam ‘Naachiyar Next’ continues to resonate

For more than two decades, this finely crafted production has carried Andal’s story across generations.

GENERAL STORIES | 9 JAN, 2026

Anita Ratnam brings Andal’s story alive with Naachiyar Next this Margazhi

Bharatanatyam exponent Anita Ratnam brings Andal’s timeless devotion to life through dance and poetry

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 24 DEC, 2025

Margazhi special: Andal and the evolution of feminine expression

Performer and choreographer Anita Ratnam reflects on how Goddess Andal, her eternal guide and companion, has influenced her art and life.

A MILLION SITAS | 18 DEC, 2025

Rhizomatic Routes of Indian Dance: The Interconnected and the Subterranean in Anita Ratnam’s A Million Sitas

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance, Anurima Banerji (ed.), Prarthana Purkayastha (ed.) Pages 734-754,

A MILLION SITAS | 20 NOV, 2025

Anita Ratnam brings A Million Sitas at NCPA: ‘Every Indian woman must meet Sita at least once’

Through dance and storytelling, Bharatanatyam exponent Anita Ratnam’s A Million Sitas uncovers hidden perspectives of Sita, Mandodari, Surpanakha, Ahalya, and Manthara, challenging traditional narratives of the epic

A MILLION SITAS | 9 NOV, 2025

A Million Sitas by the one and only Anita (Ratnam).

On the opening night was what can be called India’s best future dance-theatre export item - A Million Sitas by the one and only Anita (Ratnam). Here’s a communicator through and through, smart, in control of the medium and an excellent artiste. Dr. Anita Ratnam is a one-man army, oops, one woman army, who can act, write, sing, dance, create, curate, design and do. Activist by day and artiste by night, she represents India that’s international.

A Million Sitas is both real and metaphoric, now you see contemporary contexts, now you don’t. The production hinges on Anita’s histrionics and the additives of a live multi-drums percussionist Aswini Srinivasan and co-actor / singer Uma Sathyanarayana, who also gave occasional reprieve to Anita to change, add, pad to her various characters. Right on stage in full view she becomes a green manduka, frog, with the green glove as best prop or the layered Ahalya, ever so slowly becoming elfin stone. What polarity. Elfin stone or invisible actually in that sheen of clean organza looking textile.

A MILLION SITAS | 9 NOV, 2025

Memory, Myth, and the Timeless Sita Within A Review of Anita Ratnam’s A Million Sitas

GENERAL STORIES | 28 OCT, 2025

Dance Visionary Anita Ratnam On Building A Cultural Ecosystem For Indian Arts

Anita Ratnam has proven that Indian dance is more than just graceful postures on a stage. In a conversation with SheThePeople, she shared her beginnings in the arts and also recounted her journey as an artist.

GENERAL STORIES | 15 OCT, 2025

The healing power of dance: Why movement boosts your mood, memory and mental strength

Dance is more than movement - it’s medicine for the mind and soul. Renowned dancer shares how dance has shaped her life and taught her resilience, mental strength and joy. Backed by neuroscience and life experience, her words are a testament to the transformative power of the moving body.

GENERAL STORIES | 16 SEP, 2025

In Conversation With Anita Ratnam On Weaving Dance Into Life And Curating Living Ecosystem OF Art In India

Interview With Bharatanatyam and classical dancer Anita Ratnam On her journey, her dance, living in the us, and more

GENERAL STORIES | 8 SEP, 2025

Why Dr Anita Ratnam’s neo bharatam is the dance form everyone’s talking about

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 6 SEP, 2025

Naachiyar Next comes alive through dance, song and drama

Andal! A familiar name since childhood. I listened, rapt, as my mother told me about a little girl like me, living in far away Srivilliputhur, cheekily trying on the tulasi garland made by her father for Lord Narayana! And, of course, about her poetry contained in the Thiruppavai and the Naachiyar Thirumozhi.

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 1 SEP, 2025

Dance drama on poet Andal staged

The dance drama, Naachiyar Next, choreographed by Anita Ratnam, was staged in Coimbatore city on Sunday.

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 24 AUG, 2025

Arangham Dance Theatre to immerse Pune audiences in Andal’s profound poetry (Preview)

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 23 AUG, 2025

Andal’s allure (Preview)

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 23 AUG, 2025

Naachiyar Next explores Andal’s passionate devotion and untold anguish (Preview)

GENERAL STORIES | 3 APR, 2025

Interview with Ramya Subramaniam

Always give your best, Episode 47

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 26 MAR, 2025

Madurai is the OG city that never sleeps

Dr Anita Ratnam will perform her fifth piece on 7th century Tamil poet Andal in Mumbai this week. She speaks of her tryst with the city, the difficulty of being a dancer in India and cravings for Mumbai street food

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 24 MAR, 2025

Nachiyaar Next: A mystical tale of love

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 24 MAR, 2025

Anita Ratnam’s Naachiyar Next brings 7th-century poet Andal to life at NMACC

Naachiyaar Next brings a mesmerising dance-theatre experience celebrating one of India’s earliest feminist voices

NAACHIYAR NEXT | 23 MAR, 2025

Dance drama of new age

Dr. Anita Rathnam brings a new dance form, Neo Bharatam, to Mumbai with her latest dance drama offering - Naachiyar Next

GENERAL STORIES | 13 MAR, 2025

Hrishi K in conversation with Dr. Anita Ratnam

Andal, Neo-Bharatham & 25 Years of Narthaki | Dr Anita Ratnam | NMACC Culture Conversations