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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Those who remember the 2015 season of MasterChef Australia may remember an imperturbable Billie McKay nailing a perversely difficult sugar globe in the finale to land not just the title, the prize money and lifelong stardom but the chance to work alongside Heston Blumenthal in his iconic Fat Duck restaurant in London. Once there, she retreated from limelight to […]
Bangladeshi artist and war hero Shahabuddin Ahmed is showing select paintings at Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum Gallery for four days staring tomorrow. And when we call, he speaks softly over the phone from his residence in Paris, his voice warm and affectionate, and surprisingly unaffected by the harshness of war. Ahmed imparts the same sense of calm to […]
Fabelle, the luxury chocolate line from the ITC group launched its second chocolate boutique at the ITC Windsor, over a sit-down four course plated chocolate meal. Yes, you read that right, there were four courses of chocolate desserts, paired with music. It was certainly unusual, but appropriate if you consider chocolate as music for the soul. The evening, organised at […]
Less is more. The phrase aptly sums up India Art Fair that took off in the capital yesterday. The fair, in its ninth edition, has cut out the big and the bizarre to focus on local flavors – particularly from the South Asian region – and socio-political issues that surround us. Smaller and compact, the […]
Guess who vroomed into town recently. The first stunner groomed by Aston Martin’s ‘Second Century’ plan, the heir of the illustrious ‘DB’ bloodline, the most powerful Aston to wear a DB badge, the most awaited all new Aston Martin DB11! This beautiful beast was showcased at ITC Gardenia, Bangalore on October 17, 2016. We […]
Maraa, a provocative thought collective is launching its first book today. The book, Imaginarium of Sensuous Experiments is about every city and its multiplicity of sensory experiences. Says a note from Maraa, “The Imaginarium is a new lens to rediscover the city. In our work over the years,we have seen how public spaces are crucial to […]
Teaching is just another form of learning. And most of the time, you meet teachers in the unlikeliest of places. Once while teaching a class of post graduate students of media studies, I was told by a young girl, “You know ma’am..if you have something to offer, you will never go hungry. There will always […]
There are many ways to think about writing. And only one way to unthink the jargon. By just writing. And then writing some more. If you were to ask writers who have been published a lot just what they have learnt about writing, they will possibly give you different answers or a response that is […]
Flinntheater and Jagriti Curtain Raiser’s present C sharp C blunt Flinntheater Kassel/ Berlin is proud to present its latest offering C sharp C blunt, an Indo-German collaboration. Drawing on a wide range of talent, this innovative devised performance is bound to intrigue as it goes on an exploration of the (un)known. Directed by Sophia […]
*** Winter evenings might be getting colder in Delhi now, but the festival circuit is surely hotting up. With a string of art and culture festivals lined up this season, where else would one want to be but in the capital city? From next Friday till Sunday, all roads will lead to the majestic […]
After performing Piya Behrupiya to a fabulous response from press and public at the recently concluded Rangashankara Festival, The Company Theatre is back with “NOTHING LIKE LEAR”. This is a devised theatre performance based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, is directed by Rajat Kapoor and performed alternately by Atul Kumar and Vinay Pathak. For any information..contact […]
UNSELFED After an impressive opening run in Pondicherry at Adishaki and in Chennai at Spaces and the Alliance Francaise, Unselfed travels to Bangalore. Unselfed is a new devised performance piece which explores subjective ideas and propositions of parallel/multiple selves. What if you met another you – a living, breathing other you? Would you have a conversation with […]