Vatsala Shrivastava

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Campus crew salutes big daddy of modern theatre

Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in everyone, at least one black spot which he or she has to keep concealed.”

Recounting tales of those who left, and those left behind

Shaking dust from my shoes, there’s a road ahead, and there’s no way back home....
(Lyrics of Leaving Home by Queen)

Parinayam to open Soorya theatre fest

The 2010 Soorya Theatre Festival is scheduled from October 11 to October 20 in Thiruvananthapuram. Parinayam, scripted by M.T.

Exploring the unexplored

“Ismat’s pen and tongue both run fast. When she starts writing, her ideas race ahead and the words cannot catch up with them. When she speaks, her words seem to tumble over one another. If she enters the kitchen to show her culinary skill, everything will be in a mess. Being hasty by nature, she would conjure up the cooked roti in

Mallika gets into the skin of the good, the bad and the ugly

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HAVE YOU ever cursed the Gods? Of all the valid reasons of cursing the Gods, the most ridiculous would be to complain against a well-meant blessing of the “good self”.

Raigarh couple lends light to local theatre

THE BOUNDARY of the place is no constraint for creativity. No area can restrain the creative seed from growing giant enough to pierce the high-rise sky.

Under arclight, lives less ordinary

A GROUP OF sari-clad male actors on the first day of script reading of any play might appear weird to most theatre practitioners. The shocks continue. The announcement for the star cast takes place after 40 days of script reading, and the lead role goes to a harmonium player. The entire NSD repertory, including the

A peek into Delhi’s sights and sounds

Delhi is raring to get ready for some high-dose of love tales. Dear Delhi, a collection of 12 short love stories, is planning a glimpse into Delhi, with its characteristic sights, sounds and places.

Show goes on for Andhra’s century-old group Surabhi

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AREN’T ANTS a lot like warriors? They march in columns; they show unbounded courage. No matter how large their foe, they still attack.

Jariwala to open doors to Kingdom of Dreams

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Gurgaon, the Millennium City, is going to be the new cultural hotspot as Kingdom of Dreams, India’s answer to Broadway, starts its reign this month.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.