CONTENT NOTE: Please be aware that Nayika: A Dancing Girl contains adult themes and mentions gendered violence including sexual assault. Includes coarse language, loud music, sudden loud sound ...

Admittedly there is more attention on the nayika (female protagonist) than on the nayaka (male protagonist) in Indian Shastreeya Nrithya, but he has not been ignored in the Indian literary and ...

what makes Nayika the "9th heroine" and how one woman's story is somewhere every woman's story. If there's one collective art form South Asians can deeply resonate with, it's storytelling.