Thought Box

Puppet coach Nigel Plaskitt trains the next generation actors to bring puppets to life

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – often resembling some type of human or animal figure that are ani...

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The Circle of Life

In an age when there is so little thought given to the past, a new Marathi play makes a case for preserving memories. Soyare Sakal is the fifty-seventh production by Bha...

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23-year old Rapper Octavian wins the BBC Sound of 2019

Rapper Octavian wins the BBC Music’s Sound of 2019 poll voted by a panel of 136 critics, broadcasters and DJs, including former nominees Ellie Goulding and Stormzy ...

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Such a curious Journey: Raj More, from mimicry shows to National Award-winning Artist

His artworks are tongue-in-cheek comments – on subjects ranging from demonetisation and political unrest to the vice-like grip of Bollywood cinema on the youth today. C...

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Home and Heart

Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, the thought that passes through the mind is: there but for the grace of god goes any middle-class family, when a...

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Bomba Estéreo: A Colombian band that performs to make a Difference

The Grammy nominated Columbian band ‘Bomba Estéreo’ stands out for the way they combine elements of nature and folkloric rhythms that takes after their cult...

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The Perfect Marriage

The Marathi play Chi Sau Ka Rangbhumi, produced by Natyasampada’s Anant Panshikar, written and directed by Sampada Joglekar Kulkarni works with a fascinating premis...

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Books to read in the New Year

Here is a list of must-read fiction and non-fiction coming out in the year 2019. Non-Fiction – 2019 The very first on the list stands Julia Blackburn’s Time...

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The Revolutionary Heart

There’s a rare film which arouses you like a lover’s first kiss. And it’s the rare film-maker who can survive the test of time. Respect and regard for that k...

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After The Storm

The heroine of best-selling author Ruth Ware’s Death of Mrs Westaway, is the feisty Hal, who thinks on her feet. Her twisty-turny story is not diluted with needless...

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WOMEN RESISTING POWER IN INDIA

This Women’s Day, Vinta Nanda looks out for women in India resisting food capitali...

March 8 2026

SAFAR MEIN SHAHAR: CITY AS CHARACTER

Film critic Utpal Datta explores Mazhar Q. Kamran’s Safar Mein Shahar, examining h...

March 7 2026

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR

Writer Ranjan Das Gupta reflects on emotional intelligence as a human, ethical and socia...

March 6 2026