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 Uttara...

Naseeruddin Shah Opens Jagran Film Festival

The festival in New Delhi will feature a retrospective on the actor’s five most acclaimed films The seventh edition of Jagran Film Festival on Friday kicked off in Ne...

True Review Movie - Fire Files In The Abyss

Direction: Chandrashekhar Reddy

Duration: 145 Mins*

Fireflies in the Abyss is a sombre look at the plight of the Nepali immigrants. For this endeavour ...

Natural Births: Bringing Back The Midwife

Birthing centres like BirthVillage in Kochi are part of a growing trend Dusk-tinted light filters in through the reed curtains covering the large windows of the birthing ro...

The Best UK Pop And Rock Festivals For 2016

Britain’s shrinking southern island boasts some truly golden oldies this year, with headliners the Who and Queen (fronted by Adam “Camp Elvis” Lambert), p...

Kaleidoscope - Laughter Above All

It's driving one section of theatre folk to despair, and causing another section to success-- the popularity of comedy above all else.

Audiences are flocking t...

No More Lampooning, Bollywood Embraces Gay Characters

There was a time when films such as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya (1998) lampooned people from the LGBT community through characters who were manily sidekicks, had overtly femini...

Retroscope - A legacy of taste

Young couples who elope to marry, remember Romeo Juliet (the poor kids died)​ Raj Kapoor’s Bobby or the young lovers from a recent Marathi blockbuster Sairat that h...

Kaleidoscope : Steaming Fresh

The fourth edition of Writers Bloc, a wonderful initiative to encourage new writing, commenced last week and the city’s theatre scene perked up.
 
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