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Five’s high in fest of numbers (18 August 10:42) |
| Pramita Bose
This is a different number game altogether. Lending a twist of dance in its tale, Chennai-based ace Bharatnatyam danseuse Anita Ratnam conjures up a melange of classical, philo... |
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The marriage of dance and sport (18 August 10:40) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Did you know that the Latin American dancing is a form of sport all over the world and India is now making a mark in this dance form on the international dance floor? Not m... |
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Theatre undivided (15 August 12:06) |
| Anish Victor
At a recent meeting of eminent theatre directors, actors, dancers, and architects, who had come together for a dialogue on how performance infrastructure can be better improved... |
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1947 changed her life (15 August 12:05) |
| Shagufta Kalim
Zeest ke aahni saanche main dhalna hai tujhe
uth meri jaan, mere saath hi chalna hai tujhe…
(You will have to be strongly moulded to the struggles of life Rise up my belo... |
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Salsa is soul curry (11 August 10:41) |
| Shagufta Kalim
Kaytee Namgyal, the man whose name is synonymous with salsa in India, says, "Karma salsa is my version of the dance form and it focuses on musicality, body movement and ... |
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Exploring earth’s elements (11 August 02:14) |
| Uma Nair
Could an artist sit in the four walls of his humble home and explore nuances of the earth and the umbilical chords of the earth in canvasses and piquant paper works? Discovering th... |
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Inorganically Organic (11 August 02:14) |
| Mohammad Hasan Kamal
When tragedy strikes, some bend themselves and flow with the fate that follows. But there are some who choose not to succumb, but turn the tide in their favour. Attiya ... |
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Nowhere man (10 August 12:04) |
| Rahul Sharma
As a kid I was a really huge fan of the Beatles, thanks to my neighbour who played the Beatles’ songs at least three hours a day. The rest of the time I would study, compose ... |
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Group resurrects Benazir (07 August 11:08) |
| Manoj Anand
SLAIN pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto will be brought alive by Abahan mobile theatre group from Assam for the first time since her assassination in Pakistan. The mobile theatre ... |
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Buffet of emotions (05 August 03:38) |
| Pramita Bose
Her performance embodies grace and beauty of the august Indian gharanas. And her agile footwork wields the subtle rhythmic nuances and the cyclonic speed of Kathak with amazing... |
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Dancers are good actors (05 August 03:36) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
I got an email from the production house, the Weinstein Company that they want me to be a part of their upcoming musical Nine. In great excitement I sent them my photograph... |
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Maya of the deep (04 August 02:31) |
| Syed Akbar
MAYA, INDIA’s latest autonomous underwater vehicle, is all set to unravel secrets hidden in the murky depths of rivers, lakes and natural tanks.
Developed by the Goa-based Nat... |
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No light yet on solar corona (04 August 02:29) |
| S. Raghotham
CLOUDY SKIES left many who were keen to watch Friday’s solar eclipse disappointed but Indian astronomers and solar physicists said they did not lose much because it was only ... |
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Theatre hasn’t compromised (31 July 10:39) |
| Suchitra Chakravarti Shekary
Usha Ganguli, a well-known theatreperson, is one of the pioneers of Hindi theatre in Kolkata. She is the artistic director of her Kolkata-based theatre company ... |
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All the world’s a canvas (28 July 03:17) |
| Smita Balram Kumar
"Art has become a part of lifestyle choice today. Youngsters today are quite discerning and respect art," says Dr Alka Raghuvanshi, India’s first trained art ... |
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Delhi saturation in country’s first ‘international’ art summit (28 July 03:17) |
| Uma Nair
Touted as India’s first Art Summit,with an "International" tag to impress, the many media stories all fail to address the Delhi-centric saturated truth behind India’s... |
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Orissa pays tribute to Lata (26 July 10:55) |
| Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
In a unique way of paying respect to her idol Lata Mangeshkar, Trupti Panda, an upcoming Oriya singer, has made a humble attempt at recording a cover version of 16 of th... |
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Lost in transit (26 July 10:54) |
| Rahul Sharma
I've been reading in the newspapers recently about a certain airline misplacing the bags of superstar Amitabh Bachchan. It happened not once or twice or thrice but 19 times. Th... |
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Woman’s Crab soup for the soul (24 July 10:31) |
| Pramita Bose
Like any other woman, Anu worries about sharing a bed with an HIV positive conjugal partner and still suffers the agony in silence. In such sex-starved relationships, mutual mi... |
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Business of ‘workshops’ (24 July 10:30) |
| Anish Victor
Every summer, along with burgeoning sugarcane juice stalls, Bengaluru witnesses the
return of the "summer theatre workshops" for children. Groups and individuals bur... |
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Tallur’s pattern of paradoxes (21 July 02:15) |
| Uma Nair
Tallur L.N’s catalogue came in the mail. One recalls that he had a show in New York in 2000. For the occasion, he built a series of small wooden cabinets painted to imitate cast ... |
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Going it alone (19 July 10:44) |
| Himanshu Bhandari
The business of music. It’s a prickly subject, to say the least. Independent label W.O.A. Records made its India foray with a six-city tour, and is now one among the num... |
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Creating harmony through psychic healing (19 July 10:42) |
| Rahul Sharma
They say music is therapeutic. Each raga has a special scale and some people have used it to cure certain ailments and general aches and pains. But have you heard of a doctor w... |
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Building bridges across Divides (17 July 09:50) |
| Shagufta Kalim
Ismail Choonara is a man of many talents and places. Born in South Africa of Indian parents hailing from Gujarat, he has been living in England since half a century. The sept... |
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The comfort of experience (13 July 11:47) |
| Hassan M. Kamal
A painting is a painting. It’s not something you can write about or express using words. On the surface it is just colors, a pigment. If you express it then it becomes an ... |
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Merging daily life and allegory (13 July 11:47) |
| Uma Nair
There’s never been a great woman artist," read an international story last week. Something worth mulling over — but Indian art cannot agree. Specifically because we have A... |
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Tables are turned when advertising imitates art (13 July 11:45) |
| Mia Fineman
In February 2007 the Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay was installing a solo exhibition of his work in Paris when he received an e-mail message from a friend about a comme... |
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The guru’s school of thought (12 July 11:53) |
| Pramita Bose
Music is the medicine of the mind — John A. Logan
Imagine an open-air music school, sprawling across a vast expanse of land worth 40 cottahs in the lap of lush greenery gird... |
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The changing faces of riyaaz (12 July 11:52) |
| Rahul Sharma
Recently having watched a movie, which depicted Mumbai in the year 2050, I wondered what kind of music we would be making in the future.
Well, it’s an interesting thought, i... |
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‘A springboard to push youth theatre forward’ (11 July 12:00) |
| Karan Pradhan
"I watched a play at the Malhar festival in 1999 that was better than most professional stuff I’d seen and it blew my mind," says Quasar Thakore Padamsee. "An... |
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Theatre tech takes long, winding road (10 July 11:59) |
| Anish Victor
A long metal trough about a foot deep lines the front edge of the wooden stage. In it lies a row of small wooden plates with flaming lamps on it. On cue, water is let into the ... |
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Sacred abode of snakes (07 July 01:49) |
| Manu Remakanth
The elaborate drawings of huge snakes with faces which are uncannily human catch your eye as soon as you enter the temple premises. As an accompaniment, there is a sombre son... |
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Nuances of stree (07 July 01:48) |
| Uma Nair
Think of a six-year-old girl brought up in the hamlet of Kumara-neloor, near Kottayam. Known for red earth, thickly wooded verdant forests and small tributaries that form scenic ba... |
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Pritham isn’t about pretty drama (03 July 09:56) |
| Suchi Chakravarti
Pritham Chakrava-rthy has been in "pretty" theatre for over 20 years and feels the time is right for the medium to now take up strong causes. Television and cine... |
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The Big Dance Don’t stop the beat! (30 June 11:01) |
| Chitra Sundaram
UK visa officials in India are tiresome no doubt, but there is truly no lovelier, more energised and more welcoming global capital than London — when the sun comes out, wh... |
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Passion and a profession (30 June 11:00) |
| Madhu Natraj
I can clearly recall the day in 1995 when I met this handsome, young hotel management student who had just moved to Bangalore from Gujarat with just one burning ambition in lif... |
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Unspoken words (26 June 10:54) |
| Pramita Bose
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people
— Marcel Marceau, French mime exponent
It’s all in the mind. In mime acting, a performer’s mind is the pro... |
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Alarm bells for theatre workers (26 June 10:53) |
| Anish Victor
"My dream is to have coffee with Karan"
No, this is not a line from a famous play, nor is it a famous line uttered by a young and gushing reality show participant. T... |
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Hema promotes young talent in mom’s honour (23 June 10:38) |
| Shama Bhagat
Hema Malini has been the cynosure of all eyes not only as an actress but as a dancer too. An artiste whose career graph has always been on the upswing, Hema Malini has not only... |
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Who are bad dancers? (23 June 10:34) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Have you ever seen someone on a dance floor getting his or her rocks off with all the coordination of an ostrich on the seesaw? Did you laugh at their bad dancing skills? D... |
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Rays of a genius captured (22 June 10:32) |
| Pramita Bose
The director is the only person who knows what the film is all about
— Satyajit Ray
Have you ever wondered how frequently does a diehard Ray fan wish to travel on a time-ma... |
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Consumer conceptions (22 June 10:31) |
| Uma Nair
Indeed the auctions and Basel both reveal that today, the type of sculpture that sells for millions is a far cry from the classical conception of 20th century art expressed by the ... |
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Clutter-free works of art (22 June 10:30) |
| Hassan M. Kamal
Any creation always has some personal connection with the artist’s feelings. Their imagination wanders and slowly takes a form on canvas. For Priti Kyal, however, it was s... |
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Tim’s offering gets supple praise (19 June 10:38) |
| Pramita Bose
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being sev... |
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Selling the family silver (16 June 11:14) |
| Olga Tellis
Words like sentimentality, patriotism and nostalgia seem to have no place vis-a-vis business deals in the lexicon of globalisation. It’s the same as the free market economy ha... |
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There’s more to dance than ‘Salsa’tion (16 June 11:00) |
| Lakshmi Govindrajan
For the longest time in India, waltz was a remnant of the British Raj while jive was what the Flower Power generation brought in. Both were dances you saw happy couples ... |
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Ageless magic of the margam (16 June 10:59) |
| Alarmel Valli
Some decades ago, when globalisation was still an unfamiliar concept, I performed in a tiny jewel of a mountain village in Italy. The setting was picturesque - a village squar... |
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‘Harami’ tackles hair-raising issues (12 June 11:34) |
| Megha Moorthy
For a student of physics who accidentally drifted into theatre and writing, Ajay Krishnan is quite something. "It happened without any great moment of realisation," ... |
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Audience-actor interaction is a must (12 June 11:33) |
| Anish Victor
An announcement pleading with the audience to switch of their cellphones, house-lights dim, the buzz of the audience settles like a drifting feather into stillness, and the per... |
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Lessons on the street (09 June 02:27) |
| Shagufta Kalim
Every Yusuf Arakkal creation has a moment of truth and a story to unravel. Standing next to one of them, he points out, "I had spotted this particular gentleman right ou... |
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