India, March 22 -- When against the stark dark canvas of war, hate, stumbling D-Street stocks and tumbling stocks of oil and gas, there is staged a poignant portrayal of Tagore's poetic muse, it feels like a resplendent red rose blossoming upon the gloomy wings of a cumulonimbus.

Through the narrative of nritya, the legend of Kadambari, the muse of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, was richly revisited recently by Padmashri Shovana Narayan and her repertory Asavari. The danseuse's retelling was as refreshing as the spring rain that scoffed its snout at summer.

Breathing life into the mystique-wrapped muse that was Kadambari, through the pulsating poetry that is her kathak, Narayan gifted connoisseurs of culture just the diversion which was n...