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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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How Dope came to conquer the worldwide house scene

Four time Grammy-nominated musician, Kenny Dope kick-started his India tour in Delhi this week. A prolific artist, who has regaled the music lovers around...

‘My roots lie in the Indian classical music tradition’

Do your parents’ passions shape your own? They did in the case of Sharat Chandra Srivastava, for he started playing the violin at the...

Band of Brothers

Q. You share such an illustrious musical lineage, and come from a family of established professional musicians. Could you talk us briefly through your...

‘Whatever I know of music, I learnt it from Nusrat sahab’

Q. What are your views on fusion music? Contemporary musicians in India and abroad have been attempting to combine the sufi tradition with more...

Songs for friends and family by Consolidate

Bangalore-based independent and collective label Consolidate, which began as a Facebook community in 2013 is all set to release its second release as a...

Effortless cool, bloodless fragility and Bowie’s death

Last week saw the death of David Bowie, an artist so foundational to Western pop culture of the last few decades that his absence...

Known for his dynamic acts on the stage, Karsh Kale to release his fifth album, UP

New York-based musician and producer, Karsh Kale is all set to launch a five-city tour with the release of his fifth studio album, UP,...

Live electronica act Bit of Both to release debut album, Prequels and Sequels

Ash Roy and Ashvin Mani Sharma are not alien-names to dance music fans in India. Both are India’s prominent music producers who have heralded...

Indie band gets Bollywood debut

Advaita is India’s most distinctive brand of contemporary Indian psychedelia—fusing electronic and rock influences with traditional Indian Instruments. Having creatively amalgamated traditional Indian elements...

Sound and vision: Qualities that make Bowie’s music immortal

David Bowie’s latest, and what turned out to be his last, album — Blackstar — was released merely two days before his death. Critics...

Party goers in Goa celebrate the year-end bash with Vh1 Supersonic

EDM has replaced Auld Lang Syne brand of goodbyes in Goa forever — this state that thrives in the spirit of the carnivalesque. Goa,...

October: A band creating ripples across cities with their music

When you scroll through people’s profiles on Facebook or any other social networking sites, you come across so many boys and girls, men and...

Songs that caught people’s imagination in 2015

Video killed the radio and internet killed cable TV. For we don’t sit in front of the television any more waiting for MTV to...

Music scholarship to keep afloat the dreams of Indian classical students

National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai has come up with its 7th edition of Music Scholarships, and is open for applications. This time on, they...

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