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...
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‘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...
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...
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...
Ram Janmabhoomi Vs Babri Masjid
The dispute, as is well known, is that some Hindu organisations claimed that the mosque known as Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, a town in Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh, was built by Mir Baqi,...
A Witty Out of the Box Solution to End Corruption and Tax Evasion
The governments in the US and many European countries are very concerned, and very rightly so, about the problem of tax-evasion. Many of these governments have been pursuing some of the Swiss banks for...
INDIA ’S ONLY MULTI-TOWN CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL ENCOURAGES KIDS A Report by our roving Critic BB Nagpal from Bengaluru
Bengaluru: The 5th International Children’s Film Festival, the only one of its kind in the country in terms of its reach, closed earlier with all participants emphasizing the importance of making meaningful films...
Are You A Happy Camper? by Sharon Moist
What makes you happy? I mean really, truly happy. Have you ever given any thought to what makes you the kind of “jumping for joy, singing in the rain” happy, that leaves you...
The Most Magnificent Palace in the East: The Red Fort of Shah Jahan, the King of the World – A lecture delivered at the ATTIC, New Delhi By Anisha Shekhar Mukherji
Good Evening. I would like to begin my talk today on the Red Fort of Delhi, once called ‘The Most Magnificent Palace in the East’, with an image, which most of us present here―if...
