In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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Gallery Sumukha marks its 20th year with an exhibition of paintings by renowned South- East Asian master Senaka Senanayake. ‘Homage to The Rainforest’ is on from August 1- 27, 2016 at Gallery Sumukha (24/10, BTS Depot Road, Wilson Garden, Bangalore, Tel: 080 2229 2230) from 10:30 am- 6:00 pm Monday to Saturday. Senaka Senanayake […]
From Sanjeev Sanyal, the bestselling author of the Land of the Seven Rivers, comes The Ocean of Churn. Published by Penguin Random House India, the book is a pioneering account of the history of the Indian Ocean. About the book: Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-kind attempt, […]
Gillo Theatre Repertory is a Mumbai based repertory that has been staging plays for children since 2010. Over the past six years, they have produced more than twelve plays and staged nearly 300 shows across India. Each year, they try to bring their latest work to Bangalore and stage performances across the city. They will be bringing […]
AFB and Bangalore Little Theatre are back with the monthly play reading sessions for 2016. This play reading is a part of the Alliance française de Bangalore and Bangalore Little Theatre partnership. And this is how it unfolds. Some highly imaginative and enterprising playwright of yore, created a character non-existent in the epic Mahabharatha and got […]
Stop for a bit. Here is a mirror. Look into it. What do you see? Look again. Strange isn’t it, how we can surprise ourselves now and then? Welcome to an experimance about finding and losing yourself. Knock Knock Who’s There? is a workshop + performance where the audience will participate and in the process, get […]
Ingredients and Quantity Philadelphia cheese: 450g Castor sugar: 135g Fresh Cream: 100g Condensed milk: 250g Flour: 25g Egg white: 2nos. Egg yolk: 3nos. Digestive biscuit: 200g Melted butter: 100ml Cream the cheese and add 100g of sugar in it. Pour Fresh cream and condensed milk in it. Mix it thoroughly. Make a […]
Kalidasa is India’s greatest classical poet and dramatist, and his rendition of the story of Shakuntala is his most famous play. As part of their highly acclaimed ongoing series that seeks to bring the great poet’s oeuvre to a new generation of readers, Penguin Classics offers a new translation of Kalidasa’s work; Abhijnanashakuntalam, The Recognition of Shakuntala. […]
Pan Macmillan presents The Trap by Melanie Raabe. About the book: Twelve years ago, Linda’s sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years on, she’s just seen him again. On TV. He has since become a well-known reporter, and Linda – a famous novelist and infamous recluse – […]
Pan Macmillan presents Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. This exquisite collection of stories is for anyone who loves Allende and Marquez. Welcome to Helen’s world of lost places and lost people, of love and cruelty, of keys that haven’t found their locks . Praise: ‘Oyeyemi’s imagination is impressive and vast . […]
Pan Macmillan presents Zero K by Don DeLillo, the wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from one of the great American novelists of our time. This is an ode to language, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. DeLillo’s seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel Zero K weighs the darkness of […]
Pan Macmillan presents Remembering Muhammad Ali-King of the World by David Remnick. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out. With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. […]
Published by Penguin Books, The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly is a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the future and transform our lives. About the book: It’s 2046. You don’t own a car, or much of anything else, paying instead to subscribe to items as you need them. Virtual reality is as commonplace as cell phones. […]