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Kathak Posted by Nitin Kumar on Mar 24, 2014
Kathak (कथक) is one of the eight officially sanctioned classical (शास्त्रीय – Shastriya) dance forms of India. Kathak is derived from the Sanskrit word katha (कथा) meaning story, and katthaka in Sanskrit means he who tells a story, or to do with stories. In ancient time, the professional story-tellers called Kathakas used to tell story from Indian…