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Articles / Prose

Jadunama – The Power of Time in Literature

First Published in IIC DIARY India International Centre New Delhi, recently organised an evening evening with Javed Akhtar, where the celebrated poet recited his outstanding poetry and conversed candidly with Anil Shrivatav and audience....

Performing Arts / Play / Theatre

Playwriting for Children

10 golden pointers to be kept in mind while writing children’s plays.

1) Do not be afraid of using contemporary language and one can even throw in few phrases in Hindi, if the need be. Make it Hinglish if you want.

2) Children love comedy. They might not have the same taste as adults and might find things like “ farting” “ throwing up” comic. Add them to the script, they just add to the flavour. Please do not become prudish.

3) Another thing that fascinates children is the idea of mystery and surprise, you can use them too.

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Performing Arts / Theatre

Inside Out, Rocks

Wacky Posters announced the opening of a new play in Gurgaon The latest play, Inside Out, is one more feather in its writer and director, Gouri Nilkantan Mehta’s cap. Gouri is a graduate in...

Poetry

A Multilingual Recitation by Dr. Karan Singh

Poetry is to be Heard  A review by Mandira Ghosh READINGS: Sounds of Poetry:  CHAIR: Muzaffar Ali  COLLABORATION: The Poetry Society, India  12 December 2023 The recitations in five languages by Dr. Karan Singh...

Music / Performing Arts / Poetry / Theatre

‘सर सर सरला’ उर्फ ‘श्रंगार काण्ड’… मंच पर कविता

समीक्षा: अनिल गोयल मंच पर कविता का मंचन लगभग बीस-बाईस वर्ष पूर्व देखा था, जब भोपाल से भारत रंग महोत्सव में आई विभा मिश्रा का नाटक ‘उनके हिस्से का प्रेम’ देखा था. मंच पर...

Bollywood

“बॉलीवुड में जिन्हें आदर्श माना, उन्हीं के साथ काम करने का मौका मिला” – योगेश भारद्वाज।

लेख: डॉ. तबस्सुम जहां  बॉलीवुड के उभरते कलाकार योगेश भारद्वाज न सिर्फ एक सफल अभिनेता हैं बल्कि कवि और कहानीकार भी हैं।  उनका जन्म रोहतक (हरियाणा) के एक छोटे से गाँव ‘बसाना’ में हुआ...