Will Peace reach the Valley?

Let's talk about 2017 when Raza Mahmood Khan, 40, A Pakistani peace activist of Aghaz-e-Dosti (Initiation of Friendship) organization was abducted in the eastern city of La...

Casablanca: The Most Quoted Movie of all Times

It’s still the same old story. Seventy-five years after it was released, Casablanca (1942) remains one of the world’s best-loved films and one of my favourite f...

That Immortal Woman

Draupadi is not only the most fascinating character in the Mahabharat Read More

Out of Africa

In 1998, Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith, began the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels set in Botswana, featuring the “traditionally...

Autumn of The Matriarch

Lillette Dubey’s Primetime Theatre Company completed 25 years in 2016, and the celebrations continue, with a series of new plays.

When she set up her group in...

Archie's Four Lives

Paul Auster’s 4321 has made it to the Man Booker Award shortlist this year—the extraordinary 880-page tome that is as much about its protagon...

Is Love Enough?

The synopsis of the play Bas… Tum Aur Hum, asks a very important question: If marriages are made in heaven what is it that keeps them going on Earth?<...

The Top of the Lake: A Narrative of Dizzying Power

Rare are stories that strike through the bones and rip apart a human soul. The Top of the Lake, without a hitch engraves its story on all your sensory perceptions.
The...

The Sad Clown

There is a condition called the sad clown syndrome, which states that people who make others laugh, are often unhappy or depressed. That’s probably why a traditional ...