Here’s a link to a piece on our company on STLMade! thestl.com

And here’s a link to an interview on St. Louis on the Air (St. Louis Public Radio) with me and local actor Isaiah Di Lorenzo, who played Emperor Akbar in our November 2025 performance.

**I was Story Editor of the cherished NYC magazine Parabola, the Search for Meaning, which ended its brilliant 50-year run in April 2025! Here is my piece from the last issue: The Seer & the Student.** The theme of the issue is The Mystery of Time; I weave together discussions between Einstein & the brilliant mathematician Kurt Gödel with discussions from a philosophical tale between the wandering sage Narada and the teacher Krishna from the Bhagavata Purana.

*Please Scroll Down for more of my pieces from Parabola.

Please click here to watch our 2024 dance-theater production, Dreams of the Dark Prince, the Tale of Prince Duryodhana, from the Indian epic The Mahabharata. Please click here to watch a clip of the classical dances in our show, including a special piece I created to my favorite aria, O Mio Babbino Caro. Please click here to see the entire piece to O Mio Babbino Caro.

I also write fiction and nonfiction: an essay I wrote on my late father & growing up in STL is included in Belt Press’ The Best of the Rust Belt (Keep scrolling for details). This piece originally appeared in their 2019 The St. Louis Anthology.

In the meantime, please click here for my Substack page and here for my YouTube page.

Please Click the Button Below for my piece in Parabola’s Summer 2024 issue, themed Reality. One of the stories I’ve retold is inspired by a tale of Saladin and a Jewish merchant from the 14th-century Decameron by the Florentine writer Boccaccio. A wonderful tale to read for our troubled times…

Reality: a Tale of Artists, Mathematicians, Merchants, & Kings

Please Click the Button Below to read my piece in the Spring 2024 issue of Parabola:*

Rebellion. This is piece based on history mixed with legend from the 1791 Slave Rebellion in Haiti.*

Rebellion

In between gardens & sky, at Versailles, from 2017. I lived in France before the internet…

I was recently asked by the Saint Louis Art Museum to write & narrate an audio description for their beautiful statue of the Dancing Shiva, or Shiva Nataraja. Please listen here:

**Śiva Natārāja (Śiva, King of Dancers)**, 12th century
bronze and iron

I’m on Substack and I was posting regularly but honestly am conflicted over AI. And although I am on social media I have never been a big fan. But please have a look if you’re into Substack! I’ve begun by writing about a recent safari to Tanzania, but I’m planning on writing about all kinds of topics, including travel, literature, philosophy, my childhood, science, nature, wildlife…dance of course! Mythology…the artistic journey…please feel free to read/comment/subscribe…

Nartana.Substack.Com

An essay of mine will be included in the Best of the Rust Belt.

In addition to writing, I perform, tell stories, & speak on art/history/dance/culture. Please visit the Contact Page for more info.

We—Dances of India— were just featured on Nine PBS’ Living St. Louis! Click Below: Dances of India on Nine PBS

Hello and Welcome! I’m a writer, classical Indian dancer, storyteller, & President of Dances of India in St. Louis, now in its 48th season!