Manohar Khushalani Poetry Page
She She comes like a whisper riding on the wind Quiet and nervous as a butterfly amongst the bees She looks hither and tither ever so softly as a feather twisting in the breeze...
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Film festival – to be or not to be
Culture Cocktail (from Mid-Day, Delhi every Wednesday) Manohar Khushalani Film festival – to be or not to be As the 34th International Film Festival of India drew to a close it continued to...
Music in Healing Discourses on Music -6 Prateeksha Sharma
Music appeals to the emotional side of the human nature. Music stirs, births, expresses, fires, harnesses, channelizes and tempers emotions. Music precedes the development of language as a form of expression. That is because...
Music and Ritual Discourses on Music -5 by Prateeksha Sharma
Ritual is an innate part of the human life. Ritual whether in the form of an invocation, a sacrifice, a fast or a penance, a holy dip in a river, ringing the bells, a...
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...
KARNATAKA TO SET UP CHALCHITRA ACADEMY AND GIVE GREATER SUBSIDY FOR CHILDREN’S FILMS A Report by our Roving Film Critic B.B. Nagpal
Bangalore , 24 January: The Karnataka Government is to set up aChalchitra Academy shortly to help the Kannada film industry and will also seek to increase the budgetary grant for promotion of good cinema...
Renowned French Photographer To Exhibit True, Untainted-By-Technology Works A BANG PR REPORT
Art never ages, if it is expressed with truth and conviction. And even the entry of newer forms of art or technology cannot dilute the magic of purity that emerges from true art. The...
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...
GEETIKA AND MANTIKA – AN ARANGETRAM TO REMEMBER A Review by Suryakanthi Tripathi (Former DG ICCR)
The two sisters, Geetika and Mantika Haryani, sixteen and thirteen years old respectively, had their Bharatanatyam Arangetram at the ISKON Auditorium in Delhi on 1st February 2009. For the young dancers, it was...
The Sense of an Audience-Keval Arora’s Kolumn
Most discussions – and demonstrations, now that the next edition of the Bharangam is upon us – of what ails contemporary theatre rarely take into account the role of the audience. In an environment...
