Kaleidoscope

Revisiting The Epics

It is difficult to get young, urban audiences interested in classical dance, and perhaps even more so to interest them in mythology. The dance drama, Urvashi - Cele...

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Many Faces of Trauma

Women with mental problems remain the flavor of the season; after a succession of ‘Girl’ books, debutant A.J. Finn has written The Woman In The Wind...

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Pursuit of Happiness

Money can't buy love, compatibility or happiness, as a young woman in Makrand Deshpande's play, Sir Sir Sarla discovers for herself. The professor she admires and listens to ...

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Jay-walking In London

Khurrum Rahman’s excellent debut novel, East Of Hounslow manages a near impossible feat—he writes about Islamic terrorism with a clear-headed, balanced a...

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A Hope And A Prayer

Showbusiness is about success and stardom, but failure has its place too—if there is a top of the ladder, there has to be bottom rung as well...  In Mumbai, t...

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Electric Women

What if the gender equation were to be reversed so that women could not just defend themselves against violent males but also overpower them? Would the world become a better, ...

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Power of Imagination

There is no limit to where the imagination can go, and some the best children’s books encourage this ability. As people grow up, reality takes over but for a child the w...

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Trouble In Paradise

Celeste Ng’s award-winning debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was set in the Seventies, and explored issues of race and alienation of the ‘ou...

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The More Things Change…

Ajit Dalvi’s Marathi play Samajswasthya, directed by Atul Pethe, is a startling reminder that in spite of all the progress India has witnessed over the last ce...

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By The Sea

Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel, on her Pulitzer. Experimental in form, the book had thirteen chapters from different points of view and different periods of time. It to...

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DESIGNING SPACES THAT FEEL HUMAN

Arnab Banerjee profiles designer Tasha Singh, whose inventive practice bridges Indian cr...

July 27 2026

PHULE’S THIRD EYE STILL BURNS

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reflects on a dramatic reading of Jyotiba Phule’s Trutiya Ra...

July 27 2026

GEN Z TURNS POWER UPSIDE-DOWN

Vinta Nanda watches India’s Cockroach movement transform youth anger into irrevere...

July 27 2026