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Heiner Müller is regarded as a German successor to Bertolt Brecht and owes much to the influence of Samuel Beckett. While translations of H...

Raghava Menon was asked to comment on how music may be better woven into the fabric of our existing educational system. He felt that though ...

Remembering Dr Raghava Menon RENUKA NARAYANAN Friday, The Indian Express October 19, 2001 Dr Raghava Menon, one of India’s best-known musi...

Contemplative Cosmopolitan, Hindi fiction writer and essayist Nirmal Verma just received a French honour in the arts and letters. Harish Tri...

Unmasking reality: Inspired by Badal Sircar and other pioneers, Parnab Mukherjee practices a form of theatre that is meant to abolish the d...

E-mail nationalism: Does India exist only in the emigre’s imagination? India, it was once said, was nothing but a figment of the British im...

Oy, Chak de Phatte! How is it that a language and a culture that, for long, have been the butt of a national culture of jokes have suddenly ...

By R. RAJ RAO The Week, Nov 9, 2003 There is a school of Indian literary criticism called Nativism. Nativists ordain that Indian writers mu...

SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI THE INDIAN EXPRESS Sunday, November 20, 2005 India lost two literary luminaries in short succession recently. Punjabi p...

In His Own Script: A strain of violence runs through Vijay Tendulkar’s plays. But compiling published pieces is a lazy way to introduce his ...

Amitabh Ghosh The Hindustan Times October 15, 2001 I was in my teens when I read Naipaul's essay on how, in the Trinidad of his you...

Eunice de Souza — renowned poet (called ‘‘stringent’’ by a literary critic), professor of English (she retired last year from St Xavier’s C...

Literature is nothing if it is not a joyful act in itself. Yet, writers clearly have responsibilities towards the language and the communiti...

Does abstracting the classical make it contemporary? Dancer Aditi Mangaldas talks to ADITI DE about her experiments with Kathak. The Hindu...

I realise now that my own writing was born out of my confused angry feelings about the roles that my gender identity seemed to have locked m...

In euphemistic language we refer to those artists who tread the line between genius and madness, as people living "ahead of their time....

HABIB TANVIR The Hindu Magazine Sunday, Sep 26, 2004 That comes from my conviction that the moment you say things out clearly and produce...

Unmasking our worlds; Mahesh Dattani's is a voice unafraid to joust with a bleak today. ADITI DE The Hindu Literary Review: Sunday, A...

By Orhan Pamuk Anyone who's visited Turkey has probably been drawn to the charm of Turkish miniature paintings. These delicate, stylized...

There is a direct connection of rhythm and body. An artist practices to vibrate the instrument of nritya –body - on the sounds of drums and ...

We have to lament that in today’s world of marketing and commerce, we have reached a nadir where the dancer has almost no space, either phys...

Aparna Sharma Glamorgan, May 22, 2005 Landscapes assume differing significances and interactions in keeping with sensibilities. They may evo...

First, it was the Times of India, a decade back. It tried to break all the rules so that it can rule the roost. And, it worked. Via Delhi Ti...

PURUSA-SUKTA [RV-X.90; Tr. R. Panikkar; KTK- 32&33] A thousand-headed is the Man With a thousand eyes, a thousand feet; Encompassing the...