Not much is known about Alkazi’s Arab lineage, but the daughter constructs it in the book by interviewing her father’s immediate siblings, the father himself, and discovering some recent material...
Talking about the medium of theatre nurturing an actor, he said that the theatre arms up an actor with an acute sense of emotions, the logistics given the backstage work...
Interestingly, both Arjuna and Achilles encounter a certain level of non-heterosexual behaviour. Arjuna discovers the femininity within while Achilles also discovers the masculinity of patriarchal understanding, and both of them...
While the proverbial glass ceiling was broken by women like Norah Richards, Sheila Bhatia and Shanta Gandhi, Chowdhry observes that the ones ‘created’ by men were the women’s versions of...
On the third day, ‘Ek Cup Chai,’ a riveting one-woman play by Rajesh Tiwari, delved into the intricate struggles of women. Adapted from Dr. Kiran Singh’s story, it promised a...
Painting stories of local communities of cities of Uttar Pradesh on a ‘donated wall’, a new art initiative is bringing together public art, talented artists and socio-cultural ethos to reimagine…
The long-anticipated retelling of ‘Twilight’ from Edward Cullen’s point of view, bestselling author Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Midnight Sun’ has been launched, amid the author having caught the Coronavirus. The author has…
Its been a “long and difficult” journey spread over seven years and eight drafts, says author Avni Doshi, whose novel “Burnt Sugar”, about a torturous mother-daughter relationship, has been longlisted…
Eighteen creative and cultural practitioners from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Birmingham have been awarded grants to create new artworks, develop artistic relationships and hold online events as part of the…
A founding artist of the Bengal school of art, Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951) has had a profound impact on modern Indian art as we know it today. A virtual tour of…
It began six years ago when Kaninika Mishra, with a bachelors degrees in homoeopathic medicine and arts, as well as a masters degree in management from an Australian university, started…