NatyaNetwork
How your profile works, and how a parampara builds itself
Nobody enters the whole lineage. Each artist records only what they know first-hand — their gurus, their students, their school — and the tree assembles itself where those records meet.
What a profile is
Most profiles on NatyaNetwork already exist before their artist arrives. They were built from public sources — festival listings, awards records, school faculty pages — so the directory is useful from the first day.
A profile has two states. Listed means we compiled it and nobody has taken it over. Claimed means the artist proved the email address is theirs and now controls the page. Claiming is a sign-in with a code sent by email — there is no password to remember.
The four connections
Everything on the network is built from these. Two point at people, one at a school, one at the audience.
Your gurus
Everyone you trained under. You can list several, and mark one as primary — that one places you in the main lineage tree.
Your students
The artists who trained under you. Adding one gives them you as a guru on their own page. You can add, edit and remove these yourself.
Your school
The institution you founded, lead, teach at or studied at. You link to a school that already exists rather than creating a copy of it.
Follows and connections
The social layer — people following your work, and peer connections between artists. Separate from lineage, and it never affects the tree.
How the parampara builds
A worked example. Notice that no single person enters more than their own corner of it.
Step 1 of 6
The guru
An artist claims her page
She signs in, and the listing we compiled becomes hers to edit. She adds her photograph, her repertoire and her biography.
Building it from the guru's side
Waiting for students to arrive is slow, so a guru can also work downward: add your shishyas yourself from your profile, and each one gains you as their guru straight away.
Your profile also shows your parampara generation by generation — your direct students, their students, and onward. You edit only the first generation; the rest grow as those artists record their own.
A student who named you as their guru themselves is marked “added by them”. That badge is worth reading before you remove anyone — deleting it erases that artist's own record of their training, not just your link to them.
Who can change what
| Record | Who edits it | What happens to others |
|---|---|---|
| Your own profile | You, once claimed | Nothing — it is yours alone |
| Your gurus | You | You appear as their student |
| Your students | You | You appear as their guru |
| A school | The school's own account | Artists link to it; they cannot edit it |
| A name nobody has listed yet | Anyone may add it | Stays hidden until it is reviewed |
That last row is deliberate. Naming someone — or a school — that isn't on NatyaNetwork yet creates the page hidden and unpublished, so the directory cannot fill with duplicates or invented people, while the link you drew is still recorded.
Schools are their own records
A dance school, sabha or performance space is not a person, and does not live in the parampara. It has its own page, its own sign-in, and its own contact details — a school lists a phone number so students can enrol, whereas an individual artist's number is never published.
A school registers directly and controls its own listing: name, photographs, logo, contact details. Artists connect to it; only the school itself can change what it says.
The principle throughout: each person enters only what they know first-hand. The lineage is the sum of those first-hand records, which is why it can be trusted — and why it keeps growing without anyone maintaining it centrally.