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"Iss daur se sabhi ko guzarna padta hai..himmat mat haar bete..shunya nahin zindagi saamne hai tumhare.. insani rakt ek hamesha behne wali Ganga hai..pusht dar pusht woh behti hai..tum jiyoge tabhi hamari jade jiyengi.. marusthal mein apni ma ke cactus ...Read More

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Novelist and short story writer Bhisham Sahni once observed, "A short story is like lodging in a house one night and moving away the next morning, whereas a novel is like coming into a town where you have to bide ...Read More

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Rajat Kapoor is not made for water-tight definitions. So yes, he acts in films and writes them and directs them too but then there is a theatre and the fact he acts on stage and yes, directs too. The one ...Read More

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You have seen actor and director Atul Kumar in TV commercials, in cinema cameos but none of his more commercially visible work can sum up his range as an actor or do justice to his ability to ...Read More

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Is Hamlet you and me and everyone in between? Is he, denuded of his geography and history,  just someone torn between his possibilities and his realities? Are'nt we all? Is he a man of suppressed humour, someone craving to laugh ...Read More

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 When a play has been declared ‘Housefull’ two weeks before it is being staged, you know its fame has preceded it. I would not have got to watch Atul Kumar’s The Blue Mug either (The last ticketed show is today at ...Read More

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Power can be mellow, vulnerable, beautiful. And yet ripple with invincibility in the face of whatever life can throw at you.  That is what actor, writer, director of Ay Ombe theatre and educator Josefina Baez embodies. The capacity to always be open to bliss ...Read More

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  Lahu Sambhaji Khade died on July 8, 2011 at Kavlapur village, District Sangli. He was 78 years old. Nobody knew Lahu Khade. However,thousands of his fans in villages across Maharashtra knew and loved Kaalu. Lahu Khade was the Kaalu of ...Read More

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There is a moment in Dil Chahta Hai when in a festive sangeet crackling with sudden hostility, Rajat Kapoor rises and stands next to Aamir Khan. His nervousness masked by the way he touches his nose fleetingly. But you know instantly whose side ...Read More

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Sheeba Chadha's gaze is like a flame cutting through fog. Almost as if everything she has felt and lived has been melted in a furnace and poured into her eyes. She is incredibly vital on screen, on stage, on television and ...Read More

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Have you noticed, how for every point, life offers a counterpoint? As if to remind you that for every 'this,' there is a 'that?'  And for every Delhi Belly, there is The Blue Mug? How absolutely wonderful that on a day when ...Read More

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Everything becomes a memory one day. Some memories make us and some, we make. Some we edit, some alter us.  Life is not just what happens to us but we think happened to us. But nothing is more vivid than ...Read More