Ahalya's tale lives on in modern-day poetry, including works by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali and English; P. T. Narasimhachar's 1940 Kannada poetic drama, "Ahalya", which weighs "kama" against "dharma" (pleasure against duty); and the works of the Sanskrit scholar and poet Chandra Rajan. It is retold numerous times in stage enactments as well as in film and television productions. Ahalya is a popular motif in the Mahari temple-dancer tradition of Odisha. Other works and genres of performance art that have been used to tell her story include the "mohiniyattam" dance of Kerala; "Ahalyamoksham", a play by Kunchan Nambiar staged in the "ottamthullal" tradition; and "Sati Ahalya", a "padya-natakam" drama from Andhra Pradesh.