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Cinema
Boxing as a metaphor
Interview with film-maker Judhajit Sarkar.
Khashi Katha
Of loss & desperation
A new small-budget film on the underdog’s struggle for survival in Kolkata, employing a narrative technique borrowed from Thousand And One Arabian Nig
Partha Chatterjee
Ellora
Monolithic marvel
“WHY was it not included among the seven wonders of the world?” One cannot help asking this question loudly when one stands in front of the ma
Heritage
Southern connection
SCHOLARS are unanimous that the Kailasa temple at Ellora is modelled after the Kailasanatha temple in Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu and the Virupaksha te
Theatre
Refined recreation: Stage adaptation of Ponniyin Selvan
The stage adaptation of “Ponniyin Selvan”, presented in Chennai in June by Magic Lantern, does not disappoint as an honest attempt to retain the soul
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
Jayati Ghosh
Music and its spaces
ACOUSTICS—the science of sound and how it is received —has always been of particular importance to aficionados and practitioners of Western classical
Documentary
Songs of the soil
A video documentary pays tribute to the immense contribution of theTamil lyricist Pattukottai Kalyanasundaram, whose songs were rooted in the socialis
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
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