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Folk Theatre Forms of India: Tamasha

Tamasha is considered a major traditional dance form of the Marathi theatre, which includes celebration filled with dancing and singing and is performed mainly by nomadic theatre groups throughout the Maharashtra region. Marathi theatre marked its journey at the beginning of 1843.​3​ In the following years, Tamasha primarily consisted of singing and dancing, expanded its range.

Faiz

Poetry / Prose

Faiz Forever / Kanika Aurora

Gulon mein rang bhare Baad-e-naubahaar chale Chale bhi aao ki Gulshan ka karobaar chale Come bahaar or spring and we all end up quoting Faiz Ahmed Faiz conjuring up evocative and tantalizing images of...

Being Human The Play

Featured / Performing Arts / Poetry / Press / Theatre

An Opportunity to Look East – IIC Experience | Manohar Khushalani

During the North East fest on Monday, the 29th October, at the Fountain Lawns, the audience was confronted by a disturbing solo performance by actor director, Lapdiang Syiem from Meghalaya, called A Being Human. Earlier on the same day we had a presentation by Soli Roy about a Manipuri play, Crimson Rainclouds, written by his own mother, Sahitya Akademi Awardee, Binodini Devi

Sushant

Featured / Film / Poetry

An Ode to Sushant | Renu Mal

In April, Sushant had deleted all his old pictures that he had posted since he created his account on Instagram. Yet nobody had time to look imto his trauma. Read the touching Ode Renu Mal has dedicated to his memory

Mirage

Poetry / Prose

The Forbidden Fruit of today: CLOSURE / Ojaswini Trivedi

We spend years and years trying to find answers to the half spoken sentences and mid-air collapsed promises. The night teases us to insomnia, trying to replay the tape of those incidents, moments, gestures. What could have been, what should have We spend years and years trying to find answers to the half spoken sentences and mid-air collapsed promises. The night teases us to insomnia, trying to replay the tape of those incidents, moments, gestures. What could have been, what should have been. Were we real then

. Were we real then?

Poetry

The Only Whole Thing / Susmita Mukherjee

I will give you a piece of my land, I will give you a piece of my kid’s custody, I will give you the healthier half of the meal, I will give you the...

Poetry

A Sinister flight! Poem by Aneeta Chitale

I was a happy bird….with greatWings to fly …thousands of milesIn open skies…..in cloudy palletsI flew in seamless oceansAcross the seven seas andFive continents….in peace!I knew I was the best chosenBy The Creator….God! Almighty!...