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Films: Opportunity in the Crisis
In several of my recent articles I have written about the crisis facing Indian film industry, specially Bollywood. To reiterate a few of the problems again one can talk about ...
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Sharp Satire
“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing may be regarded as misfortune. To lose both can be regarded as more like carelessness.” Thus spake Lady Bracknell, the imper...
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All the World’s a Stage, Not in Mumbai Theatre at Least
Frankly, theatre didn’t prove to be that long-cherished platform to tell a story which was of some value to me – a story about a pre-teen boy who was saved from a ...
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No Country For Ghettos
The horrors of racism just never cease. A few days ago, a 22-year-old black man was shot to death in his own backyard, when cops supposedly mistook his cell phone for a gun. ...
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Celebrity Circus and Media
Andy Warhol famously said that everyone in the world would be famous for fifteen minutes. Hyperbole perhaps but in a digitally connected world, fame and notoriety are more in...
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Power Of The Printed Word
Poster, by Dr. Shankar Shesh, a social satire about the exploitation of tribals, remains relevant nearly forty years after it was written, and is a great favourite with amateu...
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Royal Adventures
Ken Follett,A Column Of Fire, The Pillars Of The Earth, World Without End, Catholic Queen, Bloody Mary, Ned Willard, Margery Fitzgerald, Nasty Catholic, Bart, Princess El...
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The Disappearing Art of Conversation
Since the emergence of humans on the planet, conversation has been the cornerstone of human civilization. From the initial words exchanged regarding food, predators, danger, j...
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Change and its many manifestations in India
Everyone in the country has a mobile phone. India has more than a billion phones, second only to China. Almost 240 million people have television sets in their homes. However ...
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Revisiting The Epics
It is difficult to get young, urban audiences interested in classical dance, and perhaps even more so to interest them in mythology. The dance drama, Urvashi - Cele...
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