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Play captures online pretence romance (19 March 12:57) |
| How much has the Internet taken over our lives and how unconsciously are we dependent on it in every different way? To the point where Facebook updates tell us about life and we emotionally ... |
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Have you ever tried the blue banana (18 March 12:50) |
| Once upon a time
You had me loving you.
You were always there.
When I needed you
Look at you today.
You’ve got everything you wanted
‘Cept for a little gi... |
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Show portrays the cycle of life (15 March 08:46) |
| What happens when art transcends its boundaries to embrace and assimilate elements from other disciplines, like dance, film, music and literature? A multi-disciplinary show, “Curricula... |
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Maitys artistry A coalescence of art thought (15 March 08:44) |
| For art lovers, it’s a chance to see a treasure trove of Paresh Maity, with watercolours and oils, sculptures and installations and a video created in the lap of nature at Lalit Kala... |
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Metaphysical performances (11 March 11:32) |
| The Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards presented the 10 best plays of the year at the 5th META festival between March 2 and 6 that culminated on March 7 at a glowing awards night at a 5... |
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Kathak innovates with yoga (11 March 01:01) |
| Historical, philosophical and organically mathematical. Those are the three words used to describe the phenomenon that is Kathak Yoga. The innovative classical technique that has been subjec... |
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Scared to say I love you Just dance (11 March 01:01) |
| Action speaks louder than words. So true in the case of dancers. It is a universally acknowledged fact that dance is one of the best forms of expressions. With music, it is often the lyrics ... |
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Budding artist is socially aware (08 March 04:09) |
| The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship....
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true artist is he who believes in what he paints, sends out a message through his wor... |
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Souza auction at Saffronart sure to be riveting (08 March 04:08) |
| Saffronart’s Spr-ing auction has 11 Souzas that art lovers can chase the gavel for. But there are two works that stand out like jewels. The first is a Gothic Head estimated at a hefty ... |
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Puppeteers keep it all in the family (05 March 05:11) |
| It was a fascinating experience watching the play Balanagamma, a mythological story about wicked queens, romantic princes, beautiful maidens transformed into dogs by evil magicians, life pre... |
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incredible india shot by amateurs (01 March 03:34) |
| A picture that captures the beauty of a moment is worth a thousand words. Every imagination can be a reality. Every portrait has humanity. And when the picture is a breathtaking view of one ... |
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Artists shine at India Rising (01 March 03:34) |
| As Indian art has its brush with glory abroad — a Subodh Gupta installation went under the hammer for £229,250 and an Anish Kapoor work for £70,850 at a Sotheby’s auction earli... |
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Vintage Raghu pays an ode to the classics (01 March 03:33) |
| Vadehra’s latest showing is India’s music maestros. And at Lalit Kala Akademi it becomes Raghu Rai’s “Magnum Opus”. Portraits and passionate moments of India&rs... |
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Blending music and dance on the canvas (22 February 03:37) |
| Mohinder K. Puri is a rare artist who turns Hindustani classical music and the medieval Indian dance form Kathak into textured surfaces and fluid human figures on the canvas.“I have loved ... |
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Playing with the idea of living someone elses life (19 February 12:57) |
| Theatre is a world of fun, fantasy, drama, adventure, romance, tragedy and the likes of life. “Theatre is like drinking water, a necessity of a creative life. The stage, light, actors crea... |
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Tyagaraja kritis hold true music (16 February 12:50) |
| My earliest memories of the saint-composer Tyagaraja go to my childhood of course. My late mother Padma’s hauntingly beautiful Ela nidayaradu (Bala kanakamaya), still resonates in my mind.... |
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Baajaa Gaajaa 2 as good as first edition (16 February 12:48) |
| The second, they say, is always the most difficult. Whether it be an artiste’s second album, an author’s second book, a filmmaker’s second film, a collegian’s sophomore year or even ... |
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NSD alumni plays score over international productions (22 January 03:13) |
| Kavita Nagpal
This year the bigger shows from abroad were not as effective at NSD’s ongoing BRM as the smaller productions from Singapore, Israel, England and Japan. Singapore’s multili... |
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Clowning glory (15 January 12:41) |
| Supriya Sharma
Their inflated histrionics, dramatic somersaults and gibberish on stage might fool you into supposing them to be plain jokers. But that’s where you go wrong. These clowns f... |
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Ballroom dancing has something for everyone (05 January 08:53) |
| By Sandip Soparrkar Since the earliest of recorded history we have known dance either in celebration or in worship. It is more than just a pass time it is the essence of who we are and what ... |
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Hidden energy channelled into positive steps (05 January 08:51) |
| By Pramita Bose A disorder of neural development, autism is characterised by impaired social interaction, irregular communication, plus restricted and repetitive behaviour. “People afflict... |
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Tyeb Mehta stands the test of time (04 January 09:21) |
| By Uma Nair
The late Tyeb Mehta, the artist of the decade was singularly responsible for charting the highs of Indian contemporary art in the auction world. The gentleman of the art world, ... |
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Skeleton teaches reality (01 January 01:50) |
| By Ipsitaa Panigrahi
A fisherman, a goose that speaks, live sharks and a skeleton — all on one stage. This eerie description seems like it’s coming straight out of a horror book. But it... |
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Tanvir comes alive on Kolkata stage (25 December 12:12) |
| Pramita Bose
The ongoing 26th National Theatre Festival under the aegis of Kolkata-based Nandikar Theatre Troupe is drawing both young and the old spectators to the Academy of Fine Arts. Li... |
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Odeon adds feather to Kolkatas cultural image (18 December 02:00) |
| Pramita Bose
One of the oldest performing art forms, theatre still caters to a niche audience. Far from the maddening din of mainstream entertainment, the stage productions usually peg thei... |
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Basheers plays perched in simplicity and candour (18 December 01:58) |
| Ispitaa Panigrahi
It is not very often that we get to watch the works of celebrated and popular writer Basheer who has been uniquely explored and his creations have been given a human form ... |
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Tune into radio advertising (17 December 01:35) |
| Jharna Sur
Organisations can never have enough of it - attention, that is. And they are always looking for new and exciting opportunities to attract an audience. While some depend on the In... |
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Magic realism festival hopes to bring fluidity to art forms (09 December 09:31) |
| By Supriya Sharma
Does art seem intimidating and theatre too academic to you? Well, it’s no more about just mechanically pouring over the walls or cracking some sense out of heavyweight d... |
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A silent plea for their habitat (07 December 01:59) |
| Uma Nair
Last week at the Jubilee celebrations of Silent Valley, at a meeting at Kozhikode, Union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said that in the history of mod... |
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Delhi gets a dose of old world charm (04 December 08:03) |
| By Vatsala Shrivastava
Apart from winter, December brings creative warmth for Delhiites in the form of the Old World Theatre Festival. The festival, now in its eighth year, starts Saturday ... |
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Paranjpes The Needle weaves a touching tale on AIDS (04 December 08:02) |
| By Kavita Nagpal
Sai Paranjpe, the creator of delightful films like Katha and Chashme Baddoor and the sensitive Sparsh, besides several short works, was in New Delhi recently with an award-... |
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Displaying shades of brilliance Yuriko Lochan (30 November 11:01) |
| Uma Nair
It was at the home of collector and auction house director Nina Pillai that I saw the emblematic wok of Yuriko Lochan. A golden orb of the sun was flanked by a few banana leaves th... |
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Casteing aspersions aspirations (27 November 12:50) |
| Ipsitaa Panigrahi
How often do we find ourselves drawn into the controversies of caste and class and the politics surrounding them? Something similar is what Anand Patil and his wife, the p... |
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The road to betterment (26 November 12:43) |
| Mukesh Gupta
The concept of advertising and its impact on our society has been a favoured topic of debate. People across the spectrum agree that advertising affects society in a positive as... |
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Even teachers need tutors (24 November 12:26) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Dance is a field that has never ending learning and every dancer and even a dance teacher needs to update himself all the time about the newer techniques and nuances of dan... |
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Opera gets a new dark twist (20 November 11:17) |
| Ipsitaa Panigrahi
Operas have always had a sense of grandeur surrounding them. Huge tapestries, lavish settings, symphony like orchestra with the choir master, sopranos, violins et al are w... |
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Indian dancing couple finds Vietnamese support (17 November 09:49) |
| Amrita Jayakumar
Amazing" is the one word they would use to describe their experience. Both Dr Reesha Dhulap and her dance partner Diago Pereira, who represented India for the first ti... |
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Injury an integral part of a dancers life (17 November 09:45) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Dancers also have one complaint all the time — that of injuries they have had and how they are trying to heal all of them. Most often we hear that its taking long to heal... |
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Diverse expressions of a wasted ideology (16 November 02:10) |
| Hassan M. Kamal
Having grown up in a city where marching red flags were a common sight, and where long before a child learnt who Lenin is, he sees him as graffiti on walls, I’ve always be... |
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Sublime insight into artistic lingua franca (16 November 02:02) |
| Uma Nair
At the heart of Indian art, lies the fragility of human experience, the understanding of myriad hues and the essence of artistic response in the light of the diversity of intensity... |
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Classic Hamlet gets modern Indian avatar (13 November 08:25) |
| By Ipsitaa Panigrahi
Shakespeare’s wo-rks have always fascinated every generation and continue to do so. His works have been tried and tested by different groups in unique styles and subs... |
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Speaking the language of colours (09 November 10:25) |
| Pooja Sharma
The strokes come like speech. —Van Gogh
Shubhra Chatu-rvedi’s work has a language of its own. A language that is both intriguing and relaxing. Her work is soaked in moods ... |
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Act 31 Scene 1Venue Prithvi Theatre (06 November 02:30) |
| Lakshmi Govindrajan
There are two strains of the Indian theatrical tradition, which in my opinion, are indispensable for imparting the right kind of acting discipline to any serious group o... |
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Dealing with pre-performance jitters (03 November 11:40) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
I have asked most of the international celebrities whom I taught dance, how they manage to fight "backstage jitters" just before a performance. Madonna, Shakira, ... |
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Not just how quickly you rise to fame its about fun as well (30 October 11:10) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
When I was just a pup in the dancing scene, I thought as soon as I lapped up a few more moves and took a few more classes, I would be a pretty good dancer. I tried to go to... |
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Contemporarily speaking (23 October 12:07) |
| Ipsitaa Panigrahi
He swirls, he twirls and he makes you feel as absorbed as he is in his trance like movements. The lyrical movements that flow take you to another level of spirituality. Me... |
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Lets pray for Indias future in dance (23 October 12:02) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Dance is a medium of expression, a physical manifestation of what the heart and mind hold. This expression is incomplete if we are inhibited, have something that holds us b... |
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The picture that says it all (22 October 06:25) |
| Jyoti Verma
This year, India arrived on the world advertising cine stage. The minute-long dramatic saga of a cut-out character in Chennai, who "began as an action hero, later became a ... |
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Sarukkai makes Devi relevant today (16 October 06:43) |
| Amrita Jayakumar
It was considered a huge risk, but eventually paid off. Last week, the Mumbai audience was brought to its feet by "Week of Dance", held at the Tata Theatre, NCPA.... |
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Dance is in itself a global village (16 October 06:33) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Dance, it is said, is a universal language — one that can be understood by all. Dance knows no boundaries and has no gender or colour preferences. Much like coffee drinke... |
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