Kaleidoscope

Making Sense Of Chaos

It is clear to every thinking person that our society is in a flux and whenever that happens, the first thing that comes under attack is freedom of expression. More often than...

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Action All The Way

Matthew Riley’s hero Jack West is one of the world’s five greatest warriors, along with Moses, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Christ—seriously!—so he is we...

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Farewell Om Puri

He had been so excited about doing theatre after so many years, and was pleased by the response to his Teri Amrita with Divya Dutta. He would message about 'housefull' shows e...

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The Christie Way

Anthony Horowitz’s own Alex Rider series for young adult readers is successful, but he is also labelled a pasticheur, for writing in the style of other authors, like Art...

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Screen To Stage

Sometimes all it takes is a dream. Feroz Abbas Khan wanted to do a play based on the K. Asif classic Mughal-e-Azam for years. Finally the universe conspired and the production...

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All It Takes Is Courage

Sushmita Mukherjee’s new one-woman show, Naribai, has her play a face-off between two been interesting women of different social strata. Sunaina is an upper class h...

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Criss-crossing Families

Seven books in the Clifton Chronicles, and the story could still go on. Only a master storyteller like Jeffrey Archer could have woven such an intricate plot about family dyna...

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Humour In Adversity

It would be difficult to imagine how a divorce could be turned into a comedy--but this is what writer-director Imran Rasheed has done with his new play Phir Se Shaadi!? ...

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Law Law Land

The legal system in India is such a mess, that we believe things are better everywhere else—particularly in the US, where there may be miscarriage of justice as often as...

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Ditzy Divorcee

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi’s one-woman show, Drama Queen may not advance the cause of women, but at least it turns one woman’s loneliness and bafflement at ...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: UNTOLD STORY OF SRIDEVI

Discover the untold story of Sridevi through the lens of Amborish Roychoudhury, where pa...

June 16 2024

FESTIVALS: ARE DADS LESS IMPORTANT THAN MOMS?

To address why Mother’s Day is celebrated with such grandiosity and emotion compar...

June 15 2024

HOLLYWOOD: BEING FAYE DUNAWAY

From the enigmatic Evelyn Mulwray in "Chinatown" to the ambitious Diana Christensen in "...

June 14 2024