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AR Rahman's All Women Show at Dubai Expo: The play titled 'Miracle in Matunga Street' lived up to it quite effectively. Also, to breathe real stage dust was a pleasant feeling, after a year and more.
'Alipura': A delightful romp in the Hindi heartland turns into a grim narrative of powerlessness scroll.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scroll.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When Aadesh Shrivastava fought cancer and callousness together pinkvilla.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pinkvilla.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Interview: Gilles Verniers on the pressing need to study Indian politics between elections The co-director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data on the need for an open-data ecosystem and what Indian political scientists students need to know. 11 hours ago An voter in Chennai gestures as others queue to cast their vote at a polling station in Chennai on April 18, 2019. | Arun Sankar/AFP This week the team at the Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University unveiled its latest resource: A political career tracker, allowing anyone to follow the trajectory of election candidates for national polls as well as those of 20 states, going all the way back to 1962. The resource is only the latest in a series of tools and databases that have been made available by the Centre, where Belgian political scientist Gilles Verniers is co-director.
Veteran actress Khursheed Shahid passes away June 28, 2021 LAHORE: Legendary television and stage actor Begum Khursheed Shahid died peacefully in her sleep early morning in Lahore. She was over 95. Her son, well known actor Salman Shahid, and his wife Tahira Ali, were by her side. She enjoyed music till her last days, even when she could not speak much. She also leaves behind her only grandchild Maha, daughter of Salman Shahid and journalist Beena Sarwar. Awarded the Pride of Performance late in her career at a time when it held no meaning for her, she was renowned for her no-nonsense character, powerful, sensitive stage and television portrayals and for her professionalism. She was also an accomplished singer and tanpura player who famously accompanied the great classical singer Roshan Ara Begum.
Why Bareilly’s landmark Syndicate Book House may find it difficult to reopen after the second wave After running the shop for over 40 years, co-founder Santosh Verma all but acknowledges it cannot survive now. Santosh Verma and her Syndicate Book House in Bareilly. “We were happy because we could not go anywhere else,” mused the nostalgic narrator of Nirmal Verma’s 1972 novel, Days Of Longing. The same sentiment may have been felt by another young man who, on a quiet afternoon decades later, made his way to Syndicate Book House in the small North Indian town of Bareilly. He had played in the bookstore as a child, just before he and his family moved to another city, and with the passage of time and other distractions, Bareilly had become a vague memory. But what this young adult remembered clearly was the small debt he owed to Syndicate’s cheerful owner – even though she, most likely, would not remember him at all.
The Courage to Think and the Spectre of Dissent Dissidents reject living a lie. That is why they come into conflict with the state, not deliberately but simply because they do what they feel they must do. Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty Rights20/Feb/2021 The dramatic opening lines of Vaclac Havelâs pathbreaking essay ‘The Power of the Powerless’ (1978) read thus: âA spectre is haunting Eastern Europe, the spectre of what in the West is called âdissentâ.â Havel, the well-known Czech playwright, essayist, politician and one-time dissident was the tenth and the last president of Czechoslovakia, and the first president of the Czech Republic. He wrote this essay for a joint Polish Czechoslovak project on freedom and power.
4652 1 The musical virtuosity of the maestro can be measured by the spectrum of his work. While connoisseurs of Hindustani classical music cherish his compositions, lovers of ghazals consider his interpretation of Mirza Ghalib definitive SD Sharma THE intuitive seers of music opine that Hindustani classical and light classical music, in the truest sense, is the serene, sacred and sweet language of the immortal soul and, as such, any musical performance should invariably be in tune with celestial peace and tranquility. Very few performers are gifted and blessed to induce a scintillating reverie among their audiences. The maverick maestro Jagjit Singh merits this distinction.