Articles from Newsletter

• Teacher’s Training Course in BARPS method of Asana Practice – A Review – By Navtej Johar –
• Reviewing the teacher’s training course in BARPS method of asana practice at Abhyas, 2022 – By Navtej Johar
• Beyond Technique: “becoming available”, a necessary criterion of pranayama – Navtej Johar
• Rights Vs Entitlement: KisanAndolanby Navtej Johar
• Remembering Phillip Zarrilli: director, actor, actor-trainer, author and pedagogue.
• Three types of effort in Yoga
• The power and promise of the flip-word “vulgar”

Essays & Book chapters –

• Book Review – “Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, with text” Autumn, 2017, IIC Quarterly
• “The Centrality of Caste: Dance and the Making of National Indian Identity”, IIC Quarterly – June 2016, New Delhi, India
• “The Contemplative Spectator: Seeing as Mode of Stilling Mind”, Moving (Across) Borders: Performing Translation, Intervention, Participation, edited by Gabriele Brandstetter and Holger Hartung, Columbia University Press, 2017
• The Essentiality of Abhyas in Natyam
• “The Power of Seeing: Body, History and City”, The Ethics of Art: Ecological Turns in the Performing Arts, Ed: Guy Cools and Pascal Gielen, Valiz, 2014: EoA_johar.pdf
• “Tradition as an Archive Box: Locating Autonomy, De-Policing Ambition”, Tilt Pause Shift: Dance Ecologies in India, Edited by Anita Cherian, Tulika Books, India 2016

Articles in Magazines & Newspapers –

• “Framing the Fluid: Multiple perspectives on Bharatanatyam – philosophical historical, attitudinal, aesthetic and socio-cultural”, Asia Intangible Cultural Heritage Encyclopaedia, 2006: http://www.craftrevival.org/voiceDetails.asp?Code=40
• “How The Transformative Practice of Yoga has Gradually Drawn into the Politics of Identity Politics”, The Caravan, 2015:
  http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/how-the-practice-of-yoga-is-being-drawn-to-chauvinism-identity-politics

• No Beauty Or Aesthetics: How Expansivist ‘Culture’ Killed Dance, OutLook India, 24 January 2019
• “Physical Traditions as Continuity”, Lila foundation for Translocal Initiatives, 18th September, 2014:
  http://www.lilafoundation.in/2014/09/18/navtej-johar-physical-traditions-continuity/
• “The Body as Object of Mindful Observation”, The Press Reader, 2017: https://www.pressreader.com/india/the-times-of-india-mumbai-edition/20170817/282205125997801
• “The master of ‘yoga for the moment’”, The Hindu, 9th Aug, 2016
  http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/The-master-of-%E2%80%98yoga-for-the-moment%E2%80%99/article14560132.ece
• “The Ramayana is Open to Interpretation”, The Speaking Tree, Times of India, 2016:
  https://www.speakingtree.in/article/the-ramayana-is-open-to-interpretation
• “The State of Surrender”, The Speaking Tree, The Times of India, 2012, https://www.speakingtree.in/article/state-of-surrender
• Why Yoga is Important to Me as a Dancer, as a Person”, The Wire, 6th June, 2015 https://thewire.in/author/navtej-johar