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Drama and Real Life

Friday 20 November '09

There’s a nip in the air, the season when Delhi all too briefly dons its cultural colours and playwrights vie for your attention with gusto.
Sound of Musicals

Thursday 19 November '09

While travelling the arc from social satire to slapstick comedy, Delhi’s theatrewallahs seem to have had an epiphany: that success comes packed with songs...
Holiday hook

Tuesday 17 November '09

It is Sunday morning, and Sameer Bhatia would love to sleep some more. But by 7.30 am, this relationship manager of Citibank is out on a cricket field where the conversation doesn’t just revolve around bowling tips...
Scaling the Wall

Thursday 12 November '09

It is 2.30 am. On the deserted South Delhi flyover, Zine scrawls hurried messages on the wall. Love Bug, he writes again and again, sometimes in bubblegum font, sometimes in skeletal, twiggy letters.
Scaling the Wall

Wednesday 11 November '09

It is 2.30 am. On the deserted South Extension flyover, Zine scrawls hurried messages on the wall. Love Bug, he writes again and again, sometimes in bubblegum font, sometimes in skeletal, twiggy letters.
Silver Stage

Friday 6 November '09

It is just meetings and files all through the week for IAS officer Rakesh Gupta. But come Saturday and this joint secretary of the UPSC undergoes a transformation.
To Sahir, With Love

Wednesday 4 November '09

In a farmhouse near Gurgaon, a circle of boys talk heatedly about an independent nation. As excitement peaks, slogans no longer suffice and a song bursts through — Saathi haath badhana.
Silver Stage

Wednesday 4 November '09

It is just meetings and files all through the week for IAS officer Rakesh Gupta. But come Saturday and this joint secretary of the UPSC undergoes a transformation.
To Sahir, With Love

Tuesday 3 November '09

In a farmhouse near Gurgaon, a circle of boys talk heatedly about an independent nation. As excitement peaks, slogans no longer suffice and a song bursts through — Saathi haath badhana.
For Your Eyes Only

Saturday 31 October '09

Eighteen years ago, Farooque Shaikh and Shabana Azmi sat on a darkened stage reading out letters to each other.
For Your Eyes Only

Friday 30 October '09

Eighteen years ago, Farooque Shaikh and Shabana Azmi sat on a darkened stage reading out letters to each other.
Flickering Flames

Thursday 22 October '09

When playwright Mahesh Dattani and theatre director Lillete Dubey come together, you often get such memorable plays as Dance Like a Man...
The Rebel

Wednesday 21 October '09

Even as news came in of yet another round of terror attacks in Lahore on Thursday, Delhi-based theatre producer KK Kohli was busy tweaking his new project...
Flickering Flames

Wednesday 21 October '09

When playwright Mahesh Dattani and theatre director Lillete Dubey come together, you often get such memorable plays as Dance Like a Man...
The Rebel

Tuesday 20 October '09

Even as news came in of yet another round of terror attacks in Lahore on Thursday, Delhi-based theatre producer KK Kohli was busy tweaking his new project-a play on the life of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose rebellious verses, ironically, were about peace.
Small talk

Monday 19 October '09

When a speaker ascends the dais or starts the PowerPoint, do you find yourself wondering, will she keep it short? With the art form Pecha Kucha (pronounced ‘pe-chak-cha’ and meaning ‘chit-chat’ in Japanese), you wouldn’t have the time to start worrying.
Small Talk

Friday 16 October '09

When a speaker ascends the dais or starts the PowerPoint, do you find yourself wondering, will she keep it short?
Green World

Wednesday 14 October '09

I believe that writers should not write in obscurity. If India has to see the correct picture of the Northeast, it must be through its creative writers,” says Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, a poet and writer from Shillong.
Green World

Monday 12 October '09

I believe that writers should not write in obscurity. If India has to see the correct picture of the Northeast, it must be through its creative writers,” says Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, a poet and writer from Shillong.
Impuzzible is nothing

Sunday 11 October '09

Vikramaditya Burman peers intently at the tiny cardboard pieces that lie in a mound on his desk. Slowly, he begins to pick through them, rummaging through the pile for interlocking pieces....
The River Sutra

Saturday 10 October '09

The IIC Experience, the India International Centre’s annual arts festival, is by the cognoscenti, for the cognoscenti.
Banking on Stage

Monday 5 October '09

What do finance professionals do in the midst of recession? Some of them put on make-up, dress up and act. Early this month...
Act One

Saturday 3 October '09

With a 24x7 work cycle, you’d think these corporates have their platter full, but as Chanpreet Singh, an associate head at PricewaterhouseCoopers...
What Say?

Thursday 1 October '09

Ventriloquist Paul Zerdin is never without the perfect one-liner, except that one time he stood before the Queen of England after a show. “It was just a hello,” he recalls.
Banking on Stage

Thursday 1 October '09

What do finance professionals do in the midst of recession? Some of them put on make-up, dress up and act. Early this month, theatre critics in London were in for a surprise when a little-known group staged its first play at Rudolf Steiner House near Baker Street.
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