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Snake, Love and Sexuality

Ravindra Tripathi’s There are a lot of stories in Indian mythology and folklores where you find the snake or the serpent as sexual motif. Some modern plays  are also based upon it. For example...

‘The Park’ as a metaphor

Ravindra Tripathi’s Three benches for three – yet no space – a scene from ‘The Park’ The 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsva has started with fanfare. Although the city of Delhi is freezing with  severe...

Begam’s Pillow from India or Muare from Argentinia?

Ravindra Tripathi’s ‘Muare’ – Movements and Physicality Tuesday (11.01.2011) was not as cold as the previous days.  The sun was in the sky and the earth was having a sigh of relief.  The atmosphere...

Do you know Janusz Korczak?

Ravindra Tripathi’s A Scene from ‘Sunil Shanbaug’s Play ‘Dreams of Talim’ Sometime you hear a true story which is more dramatic than drama, more painful than Greek tragedies. Here is a story for you...

A Magic Lantern Presentation

Flash-point human rights film festival comes to Delhi Still From ‘Suddenly Last Winter’ The three-day Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival, which brings together eight extraordinary films from around the world that deal with human rights...

A political play from Bolivia

Ravindra Tripathy’s EN UN SOL AMARILLO- Photo: Radoslav Pazameta-Lucasninos Cuadro We, in India, are familiar with South American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas llyosa and others. But we know very little about...

Exhibition at JNU – The Marshall Albums

E-Invite The Marshall Albums: Photography and Archaeology on 14th January, Friday, 5:00 pm at the Exhibition Gallery, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU.(E-invite attached). There will be an introductory talk on the exhibition by Akshaya Tankha and Joyoti Roy...

Arunachal Pradesh on The Theatre Map of India

Ravindra Tripathi’s No doubt, the Hindi language has many local dialects. But have you ever heard of Arunachali Hindi? Yes, it exists. You want to know where it is?  It is in Arunachal Pradesh...

Dreams of Talim – A Tribute to Chetan Datar

Ravindra Tripathi’s Last year in BRM (the 12th Bharat Rang Mahotsav)  when  I saw Sex, Morality and Censorship, directed by Sunil Shanbaug, I was quite impressed. And not only me, the entire  Kamani auditorium ...