Time-Travel In Khajuraho: Where Pan-Indian Dance Traditions Are Kept Alive – Essay

Khajuraho, a thousand-year-old temple town in the rugged heartland of Madhya Pradesh in India, is keeping alive ancient traditions of dance and music of the entire sub-continent. For a week every year, the Khajuraho Dance Festival brings together the finest dancers and dance troupes to showcase their performances at a stage created in front of the imposing Kandhariya Mahadeva Temple. February 2026 marked the 52nd year of the Festival; for the performers and the audiences it was a time-travel across centuries of turbulent history...