Padayani Singer Anil Poonthottam talks about the pre-caste legacy of the ritual and the community participation (Kerala, 2017)
Significance of the Neelamperoor Padayani Festival: In Conversation with Anil Poonthottam
in Interview
Published on: 29 December 2018
M.R. Vishnuprasad
M.R. Vishnuprasad is a young poet and performance art researcher currently based in New Delhi. He received a fellowship from Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India in the field of Folk/Traditional and Indigenous Arts in 2017. For the past twenty years he has been writing poetry in Malayalam and is credited with two anthologies. With a postgraduate in environmental sciences, Vishnu is currently pursuing his PhD in theatre and performance studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Vishnuprasad’s intervention in art is a tripartite synthesis of poetry, ecology and performance art.
