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Arts & Culture
Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Day Two
Graz theatre festival: Theatre across borders
As Himali Kothari gets to know plays and playwrights from around the world, she is struck by the lack of cross-pollination in the field of theatre.
Himali Kothari
Archaeology
Iraq: An ancient city emerges from the water in archaeology sensation
Iraq’s extreme drought give German and Kurdish archaeologists a chance to examine a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age city.
Deutsche Welle
Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Day One
Schauspielhaus Graz: Climate change, playwrights, and their lonely lives
Himali Kothari narrates how her playlet Friends for Life came to feature in the ongoing Graz theatre festival on climate change in Graz, Austria.
Himali Kothari
New Articles
A poem of its moment
The significance of ‘The Waste Land’, which turns 100 this year, and T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre and continuing appeal. By Tabish Khair
Tabish Khair
Documentary
This Oscar-nominated documentary delves into the art of darkness
Danish film-maker Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ‘Flee’ is a complex and moving story about refugees, with Afghanistan as its background.
Tabish Khair
Spotlight
Satyajit Ray wrote 52 letters to ‘Jana’ over 16 years. Who was she?
An ongoing exhibition reveals yet another facet of Satyajit Ray, that of prolific letter writer, which opens a window into the uniquely vibrant mind o
Juhi Saklani
Theatre
Jana Natya Manch: 50 years of performing resistance
The street plays of Jana Natya Manch, the Delhi-based theatre group that turned 50 this year, remind us how a culture of open, free, and public perfor
Sudhanva Deshpande
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Translated by Syeda S. Hameed and Sughra Mehdi
'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot: A poem of its moment
The significance of ‘The Waste Land’, which turns 100 this year, and the continuing appeal of T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre.
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'Mi Vasantrao' captures the making of maverick classical vocalist Vasantrao Deshpande
The Marathi film Mi Vasantrao on famed classical singer Vasantrao Deshpande takes us into the very essence of his life.
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Living on the edge: Assam's Mising tribe
They are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
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Photographs by Ritu Raj Konwar
Living on the edge
They are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
Ritu Raj Konwar,
Photographs by Ritu Raj Konwar
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