My time in Oxford and Cambridge is associated with certain specific sounds and visuals... this song takes me instantly back to the cold winter days when I sat on the window sill of my student room, sipping tea and engaging in life's big project of "becoming me".

In the last year or so, I have thought much about playing the role of a child in Bharatanatyam. I have danced pieces about little Krishna ever since I myself was a child, but as an adult, what does it demand of a me to play a child.

The limitless possibilities of what the body can paint on the canvas of space... This is the chitta swaram of the khamas varnam maa moha lahiri meerude, choreographed by Priya Aunty. Even though my body performs it, my mind continues to grapple with the wonder that is this swaram.

I cannot find a better term to define the week that was at Liverpool. As I watched Krishnan Sir’s exposition of the lyrical emphasis of Lalgudi’s music, brought visually alive by Leela Samson’s poetic interpretation of his Revathy Thillana and Priyadarsini Govind’s abhinaya to Theeradha Vilayatu Pillai – I heard the words through dance and saw the words through music. For a student of the arts, this state of consonance is the ultimate aspiration.