(2). There is also a website which complements this film with additional footage, interviews, and articles. Currently, the film can be downloaded from the AHDS website (for PC users only)

(3) I was very fortunate to work with a very talented film maker, Rajyashree Ramamurthy, however, documentary making was new to both of us, as Rajyashree’s experience was primarily as a dance-video maker. We had a very limited budget and this put many constraints on the project. I am most grateful to the AHRC Research Centre for Crosscultural Music and Dance Performance for taking over this project as producer to allow for its completion and to the British Academy for funding it.

(4) The voice over is not provided by a professional actor, whose services I could not afford, but by a SOAS undergraduate student with an adequate voice, able to pronounce, after some training, the Sanskrit and Oriya names that continuously crop up.

(5)These are classical dances originating , respectively, in the South and the North India. For a discussion of bharatanatyam see my own article Lopez y Royo 2004 and the excellent book by O’Shea, 2007. For Kathak see Chakraborty 2008.

(6) Guru Surendranath Jena passed away on 8th October 2007

(7) It should be noted here that the passage quoted in the documentary is not from Vidya Dehejia’s book Yogini Cult and Temples (1986), but from an interview she gave about herself in the Tribune , 30 April 2000, in which she describes the work she did in the book. It is definitely her words that are being quoted, but they are not from that book . This is an unfortunate mistake I did not manage to correct before the voice over was recorded.

(8) see White 2003, 204-212 for more details. Yoginis are described as being able to fly and this power seems to be associated with the consumption of flesh

(9) A cakra is a “circular formation intended for specialized tantric rituals” Dehejia 1986, 42

(10) This, as well as a circle, can also be a square or rectangle, with the same properties as a cakra Dehejia 1986, 42

(11) I can only blame the timing of the voice over: we had the studio available only at a particular time and the script still needed some tweaking. Once the recording was done there was no chance of changing anything. In saying this I am not declining to accept responsibility for what was recorded but I would like to point out that if I had had more time the script would have been finessed.

(12) see for example the Puri Destination Guides of the Department of Tourism , Orissa now filed at the Toshali Sands website

(13) see Devi Yatra

(14) see The Hindu