In Cricket – Look before you take the leap
The most important feature that everybody should bear in mind is that if you opt for cricket as a career then not being successful, is not an option and you stand nowhere.
The most important feature that everybody should bear in mind is that if you opt for cricket as a career then not being successful, is not an option and you stand nowhere.
Cricket is a funny sport. Common belief is – it is a game of glorious uncertainties. If it is so then how come Sachin scored 100 International tons? He must have reached the pinnacle...
Personalitites / Poetry / Prose
by Kanika Aurora · Published 3 September 2021 · Last modified 4 September 2021
The bonds and conventions of society are certainly reflected in my poetry, negatively, of course. But I think every intelligent person has to suffer…Suffering is the price the intelligent person has to pay. As for women, I feel that women in literature are different from women in other fields…Basically; there is a prejudice against women in literature. Men take women’s writing lightly; they doubt a women’s sincerity. For example, when I got this Sahitya Akademi Award, and with it fame, the leading English daily in Delhi wrote that I got my popularity in Punjabi literature because of my youth and beauty. I felt very sorry to read that. Why not talent? They can admire a beautiful woman, but not a talented one.”
Dilip Kumar used to speak Marathi fluently. He had seen many popular Marathi Sangeet Natak’s. Sometime at his home he will take out harmonium and sing old Marathi theatre song made popular by Bal Gandharva. Dilip Kumarji and Saira ji used to visit Pune during weekends
Dr Kapila Vatsyayan passed away peacefully at her residence (No.85, SFS Flats, Gulmohar Enclave, New Delhi), Wednesday 16th September, 2020 at about 0900 hrs, this morning, . She was a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture, and art history.
Keep this Blog open as you travel. Be sure if you are living in or traveling in a safe zone in India. Very effective try your address; it will show whether you are in a hot spot.
Habib Tanvir (1923-2009), was perhaps the most famous Theatre personality in north India. An actor-manager in the Old-School mould, he led a crowded professional life, which, over the years, had invariably...
Jangama is a collective of five actors/performance-makers that strive to create work that may speak across cultural and linguistic barriers through their own forms and languages. The collective comprises of Lakshmana KP (India), Pooja...
Inner Eye Foundation, San Ramon; Mondavi Center for the Arts, California; Hindi Sangam, Portland, and also in various top universities of the world. For more than four decades, it has collaborated with organizations like United Nations Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), etc.
Pragya Cultural Centre is a Kolkata based theatre group. It works for social causes, and for differently abled people using theatre as a therapy. The group has been performing a popular play Fight Cancer since 2003. It runs theatre workshops for theatre lovers in the eastern zone. It has won several drama competitions and awards.
Articles / Film / Folk / Performing Arts / Theatre
Janardan Ghosh’s Kayantar – Towards the need for Transformation
28 Aug, 2023
More
Editor-in-chief
Manohar Khushalani
Brief Profile
Actor/Director Profile
Environment Profile
Arts Analyst
Archana Hebbar Colquhoun
Columnists
Krishan Tyagi
Anisha S. Mukherji
B.B. Nagpal
Divya Raina
Archana Hebbar Colquhoun
Anil Goel
Dr. R. Nagaswamy
Gouri Nilakantan
Sezal Chugh
Jai Chandiram
Joya John
K.B. Khushalani
Keval Arora
Krishan Tyagi
Laxmi Shanker Bajpai
Naveen Gupta
Prateeksha Sharma
Preminder Singh
Ravindra Tripathy
Seema Bawa
Sharon Moist
Sonal Parmar
Ute Margaret
Victor Vijay Kumar
Contributors
A.K. Chopra
Akbar Wali Khan
Alessandro Pinto
Alessio Zanelli
Antonio Blunda
B.B. Nagpal
Chetan Pandit
Dr. Anu Aneja
Dr. Bharat Gupta
Dr. Himadri Roy
Mrs. Neelam Jain
Dr. Ravi Bhatia
Dr.Reshma
Gayatri Keswani
Geeta Chandran
HS. Shivaprakash
Iffat Fatima
Indah Widiastuti
Kunal Puri
Lola Chatterji
Manish Vidhani
Margaret Saine
Malyan Pereira
Moanaro Ao
Neville Tuli
Ojaswini Trivedi
Paromita Vohra
PhotoSwami
Piyali Dasgupta
Rachna Seth
Radha Rayasam
Savita Singh
Sandra Fowler
Sushmita Mukherjee
Sharon Lowen
Shikha Jhingan
Sonnet Mondal
Sukrita Paul Kumar
Suryakanthi Tripathi
Tarini Sridharan
Vijay K. Sharma
Pallavi Mishra