Alternative Entertainment

'Affection' Is An Uplifting New Play About HIV

Six years ago, theatre director Ben Buratta started an unusual collective called Outbox Theatre. Consisting solely of LGBTQ performers, they hold workshops with youth groups a...

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Amazon India To Launch Music Festival With MTV Ahead Of Festive Season Sale

Amazon.in, along with MTV, has rolled out a content marketing initiative ahead of the festive season. The e-tailer has partnered with MTV Brand Studio to launch a music festiv...

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Kazoo Is The First Feminist Magazine For Little Girls Who Love Outer Space & Climbing Trees

At a time when every child over the age of six enters the world armed with smartphones and iPads it has become more necessary than ever to tailor worthwhile content for young ...

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Stephen Hawking To Headline Science And Music Festival In Norway

The theoretical physicist will deliver a lecture at Starmus IV in Trondheim when it moves from the Canary Islands next year to examine origin and evolution, the human brain, s...

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Aamchi Cinema: Diversity In Unity

How does a simple family in a traditional village grapple with a transgender child and the concomitant sexuality and identity crises? Suhaas Bhosale’s Koti casts a sensi...

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Deepa Gahlot: Plays That Stand The Test Of Time

Many plays continue to have a hold over every new generation of audiences and directors, who keep going back to them Not too many plays stand the test of time, but there are s...

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Pacific-Wide Storytelling Initiative Launched

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning has launched the Pacific Storytellers Cooperative, an Internet platform for place-based stories from all Pacific Islands to be sha...

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Theatre Will Shrink, Like Cinema Viewing Has: Naseeruddin Shah

Last weekend, veterans Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah (right) — as Mrs Patrick Campbell and George Bernard Shaw, respectively — staged the play, Dear Liar....

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A Cry From The Mountains, With Echoes In The Cities

The story of Hindi poet Mangalesh Dabral, who was born in Tehri Garhwal in 1948 but for most of his career as a journalist lived and worked in Delhi, is the story of Uttarakha...

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The Story Of Biryani: How This Exotic Dish Came And Conquered India

Biryani is an evergreen classic that really needs no introduction. India offers so much on its culinary platter but the one dish Indians unanimously love indulging in is the m...

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GENDER: WHEN FIDELITY MEETS MODERN DESIRE

Twinkle Khanna’s remark on marriage and infidelity sparked nationwide debate a cou...

December 5 2025

TRENDING: CULTURE, SCREENS, STORIES, SHIFTS, POWER

From blockbuster star sightings to emerging tech, awards honouring inclusivity, breakthr...

December 4 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: AGE, STILLNESS, CINEMA

The stasis of old age rendered with precise strokes becomes not just a theme but an emot...

December 3 2025