Search Result

Search Result
Alternative Entertainment

Telling Tall Tales

World Storytelling Day (March 20) was a reminder that the art of storytelling is slowly but surely disappearing. Now television attracts the young and sidelined mothers and...

Read More
Trending

Censorship By Mob Rule Is Choking Creativity, Says Star CEO Uday Shankar

Because he is now a central figure in India's television business as CEO of Star India, it's easy to forget how alien Uday Shankar was to it on the day he took the job almo...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

Film Review: Mukti Bhawan

Thithi and Mukti Bhawan would make an excellent double bill. Both are indie comedy-dramas – even if Thithi, in both style and process, is indie-er than Shubhashish Bh...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

Manthan 2017: India's Largest Street Play Festival Ends After Performances Abroad

Manthan Mahotsav, the largest street play festival in India, finally completed its 10th edition with the ceremony on April 1. The brainchild of Verve, the street play socie...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

On Parwati Dutta’s Journey To Introduce Arts Education To The Deprived

Here are dancers who travel the world, win laurels, bring glory to their art form, produce innovative choreography, build an army of competent students and then there are t...

Read More
Festivals

Queer Film Festivals Way Beyond Forum For Cinema

Diverse and complex, South Florida’s LGBTQ community enjoys a full calendar throughout the year. The wide array of activities and events — from pool parties and...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

There Are No Gharanas, There Is Only Music

There are so many memories. First of all it is still not sinking that Kishoriji is no more. It happened so suddenly. In fact, somebody who is known to me and organises musi...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

Why I Wrote A Play About William Wordsworth

I wrote a PhD on the poet William Wordsworth many years ago. More recently I returned to the subject to write a play about him. It opens at The Theatre by the Lake, in Kesw...

Read More
Hollywood

18 Women Filmmakers On Gender And Representation In Hollywood

“I feel like we’re still way, way behind. Like, enormously behind. But I also feel hopeful and I’m a fighter and so I’ll keep on fighting. I’m...

Read More
Festivals

Shorties 2017: Enter The Conde Nast Traveler Film Festival

A decade ago, you needed 30 pounds of expensive equipment and a set of highly specialized skills to make a professional-grade travel video. Now all you need is an iPhone. T...

Read More