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National School of Drama’s Bharat Rang Mahotsav to stage Indian and foreign plays

20th Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM), the largest theatre festival in Asia, organised by the National School of Drama (NSD), is all set to bring its bouquet of plays, interactive sessions, and other...

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PM Modi’s condemnation of Trudeau’s actions a turning point in India-Canada relations

The Indian PM’s reference to the “rule of law” in his tweet served as...

Top 5 Abhinandan Mishra

Confronting America’s fiscal disaster

Reducing the size and cost of government is a major priority for former President,...

Top 5 Scot Faulkner

Trudeau presides over Khalistani madness

Blaming India for every criminal incident in Canada is laughable, when Trudeau’s pet thugs...

Top 5 Joyeeta Basu

IAF takes adequate measures ensuring digital security, no threats from MoU with Uber

The data is encrypted in such a manner that it is almost impossible to...

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A headbanger’s journey to the brutal, hateful extremes of metal

Extreme metal in itself is a meaningless term. It merely signifies the degree to which a piece of music you’re listening to is “metal”...

Music Review: Music for Drifters & regular people

Music for Drifters, the very literally named album by Brit band Field Music, is a commissioned work created as a soundtrack to the 1929...

Event licensing streamlined

Organising a gig in Delhi is something that is best avoided. Bureacratic hurdles abound in the capital, and obtaining the right permits from the...

An ever evolving musical journey

Between playing and recording with Mumbai-based metal band Scribe (where he’s the vocalist), jamming for a new project with Sidd Coutto (it’s unnamed as...

K-pop’s magnetism, the Korean Wave and the Theatre of the Absurd

A whole bunch of the boys from the boybands performing at Siri Fort in Delhi last week — for a showcase of Korean pop music...

Music Review: Repetition as melancholic motif

At what point does deliberately executed repetition as a creative motif in a song lose its charm? Is it five minutes? What about 10...

Chart your way through the best music festivals in India this season

Keeping all illusions of fluidity and individualism on one side, everyone's always a Type. You will never like all music equally; you can't not...

The Peter Cat Penthouse and Other Stories

Anyone who comes up to the "PCRC Penthouse" is invariably panting for breath. Way at the back in an unmemorable lane in Hauz Khas...

The Rock Supergroup: Forever doomed to egotistic mediocrity

The average lifespan of a supergroup, in a perfect world, should be no more than seven minutes and fifty seconds. It sounds arbitrary —...

The year of the mega-release: Upcoming music albums of 2015

Heightened secrecy in the music industry is a fascinating, if unwitting, byproduct of the digital age. Keeping two steps ahead of pirates has led...

Reunion concerts are a bad idea

Dreams of rock stardom don't sit well with the conservative mindset of our society. Today's young are more likely to take out life insurance...

No grand romance to be found here

Following Fun's massive success, particularly on the back of We Are Young, Nate Ruess, the band's lead singer, has branched out on his own...

Subterranea gives listeners 18 straight days of Thom Yorke

The longest individual piece of music I've heard is a record called Somnium, split into three parts, by ambient composer Rober Rich. The album...

Music review: Are you a psycho killer? Scream it!

Hello? Does anyone know what's going on with Muse? They've been steadily reaching for an overdramatic, over-elaborate, over-theatrical (borderline self-parodic) version of themselves since...

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