While OTT platforms were already on the scene, with theatres forced to close their doors during the lockdown, the audience soon turned to these streaming
Dhaka dwellers finding no open spaces in the city, have chosen graveyards as ‘alternative places’ as parks and venues of recreation.
When Surekha Sikri won the National Award for her performance in Badhai Ho (2018), she was 73 and wheelchair bound. A brain stroke had affected
Trolls must be made accountable for their behaviour, because from the cancel culture where a public figure faces backlash for what they do or say
And thus, began the ritual of feeding Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra with innumerable food items throughout the day.
As he worked his way up the ladder of success, he continued to hone his skills as an actor. His ability to get under the
And we met and we talked after the show. And I saw he had talent. He was playing guitar backstage doing Twenty Flight Rock by
Magician Uday Shankar, who regaled people of Calcutta with his Magic Scope, passed away peacefully in his sleep on 24th June, 2021. He was the
With the world fascinated with the rain, it doesn’t come as a surprise that rain has been romanced in literature and is often used to
But nights are more often associated with fear of the evil powers, lurking both within and without. The fear of the unknown – an existential
I soon discovered a new, exciting world, as RP and Basanta-da poured their knowledge over me. I hardly understood then how fortunate I was when
Swatilekha seemed to have finally found her metier in Shanu Roy Chowdhury. This one-woman performance was inspired by and adapted from a Willy Russell play
Mamata Banerjee who was born in 1955 was in her late-teens – the most impressionable age – when Maa Mati Manush premiered.
In 2008 the Maharashtra government passed a plan of training 100 tribal women for the position of flight attendants. The entire plan ended with only
Evenings are times of reverie and intense self-introspection. Another day slowly and surely fades into the horizon.
In the moments of dilemma, the instants of uncertainty a man would stick the adventurer little finger up the nostril...