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.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.Wednesday
4 November '09It 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.Tuesday
3 November '09In 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.Saturday
31 October '09Eighteen years ago, Farooque Shaikh and Shabana Azmi sat on a darkened stage reading out letters to each other.Friday
30 October '09Eighteen years ago, Farooque Shaikh and Shabana Azmi sat on a darkened stage reading out letters to each other.Thursday
22 October '09When playwright Mahesh Dattani and theatre director Lillete Dubey come together, you often get such memorable plays as Dance Like a Man...Wednesday
21 October '09Even 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...Wednesday
21 October '09When playwright Mahesh Dattani and theatre director Lillete Dubey come together, you often get such memorable plays as Dance Like a Man...Tuesday
20 October '09Even 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.Monday
19 October '09When 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.Friday
16 October '09When a speaker ascends the dais or starts the PowerPoint, do you find yourself wondering, will she keep it short?Wednesday
14 October '09I 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.Monday
12 October '09I 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.Sunday
11 October '09Vikramaditya 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....Saturday
10 October '09The IIC Experience, the India International Centre’s annual arts festival, is by the cognoscenti, for the cognoscenti.Monday
5 October '09What do finance professionals do in the midst of recession? Some of them put on make-up, dress up and act. Early this month...Saturday
3 October '09With a 24x7 work cycle, you’d think these corporates have their platter full, but as Chanpreet Singh, an associate head at PricewaterhouseCoopers...Thursday
1 October '09Ventriloquist 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.Thursday
1 October '09What 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.Tuesday
29 September '09Ventriloquist Paul Zerdin is never without the perfect one-liner, except that one time he stood before the Queen of England after a show.Sunday
27 September '09Anurag Hans has a clear vision of the future, and it’s audacious: “On weekends, when young couples want to go out, they’ll toss between a film in a multiplex or a play at Kamani...Thursday
24 September '09Raghav Mandava’s year-old CV says he’s a sports reporter and a flair bartender. Pretty soon, the 22-year-old will add stand-up comedian to his small list of achievements.Sunday
20 September '09You taught me language, and my profit on it is I know how to curse. Thus spoke Caliban in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.Saturday
19 September '09When The Climate Project (India), an independent chapter of Al Gore’s non-profit body, the Climate Project, hosts the Green Job Fair next week...
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