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Pankhuri Zaheer
Festival Diary: An Ongoing Drama Linking Theatre to Life
11 Feb 2020
Ninety plays are being staged in the capital’s Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2020. Read about this week’s personal, political, and flights of fancy and next week’s line-up.
Rishab Bailey
Patriotism and Prurience – A Technocratic Solution
15 Dec 2016
The Supreme Court of India recently made it mandatory for all cinemas in the country to play the national anthem before every film screening. Not only is it compulsory for moviegoers to listen to the…
Sonali
IPTA Attacked: Saffron Cancer Continues To Spread
06 Oct 2016
RSS has always been dangerously aggressive when it comes to protecting their faulty ideology, but since May 2014 they have been under the protection of Central and BJP ruled states.
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Does Law Imitate Theatre? Part I
20 Nov 2013
Theatre's claim to uniqueness is premised on the experience of liveness and presence -- a claim that seems to have survived despite serious challenges at the level of theory and practice. How can we…
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Remembering GPD
17 Oct 2013
Govind Purushottam Deshpande, 1938-2013. Eminent Marathi playwright and intellectual Govind Purushottam Deshpande died at 8.15 p.m. on 16 October 2013, following a long illness.
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Memories of Tanvir Saheb
05 Jun 2013
Recently at Studio Safdar, Nageen Tanvir and the Naya Theatre Mandali sang old, rare songs penned by Habib Tanvir. Also, extracts from Tanvir saheb's memoirs in Urdu were read by members of Janam. In…
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Theatre Should be a Fundamental and Accessible Part of Our Lives.
25 May 2013
In a freewheeling interview with Newsclick, Sanjna Kapoor speaks of 'Junoon- a stage for theatre' which she founded along with Sameera Iyengar in 2012 and the response to the initiative so far.…
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New Imaginaries in Cultural Activism
07 Dec 2012
Sadananad Menon, well known cultural critic, speaks on 'New Imaginaries in Cultural Activism' wherein he explores the intricate relationship between politics and culture. He says it is doing the…
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Protest against Performance by Israel's Cameri Theatre in Delhi
06 Nov 2012
On Sunday evening, November 4th, about 60 friends of Palestine – theatre persons, writers, artists, film makers, academics, students and activists -- gathered outside Delhi’s Siri Fort auditorium,…
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The Outsider: Badal Sircar (1925-2011)
16 May 2011
Badal Sircar remained, in many ways, the outsider in Indian theatre.