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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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Magnetic Fields pulls big-ticket acts

Magnetic Fields, the annual electronic and independent music festival returns with its third edition from 18-20 December. The festival will be held at the...

India learns to rock with MLTR

Q. Twenty Five years is a long time for a band to remain together. Many groups have disbanded due to internal clashes or for...

An international musician’s artistic homecoming

Anoushka Shankar’s new classical music album Home is accompanied by Ravi Shankar’s words, “A raga is the projection of the artist’s inner spirit, a...

When the wandering tunes of Baul reverberate across the world stage

When I was a student at Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan, I stayed in awe of a rickshaw-puller who played flute every evening, with his vehicle...

String Theory

Look at this instrument. It looks like a cross between a sitar and a guitar. And indeed it is. It’s actually an electric sitar....

How the cult of personality around the ‘celebrated artist’ drives our culture

Pop culture has a tendency to annexe territories originally considered alien to it. A lot here has to do with celebrity, with fame —...

The enhanting RIFF on fusion music

Over at the main stage of the festival, Yossi Fine, the celebrated Israeli bassist and producer, started off this one piece with a running...

Ratatat to play at Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Fields, the annual electronica and independent music festival held at the AlsisarMahal in Shekhawati, Rajasthan, returns for its third edition from 18-20 December....

Happy songs for happy people: Mogwai and the space between melody and chaos

Between my Apu-like Indian accent and Stuart Braithwaite’s thick Glaswegian inflection, we barely understand a word the other says in our brief, 15-minute-long phone...

Singing for a new tradition while learning from the old

Locating the house where the Hindustani classical musician Pandit Chhannulal Mishra lives in Benares was easier than I thought it would be. To begin...

Hip hop’s poster boy is a nerd prodigy

Rory Ferreira, who goes by the mononym Milo (although, like Gandalf, names are his many: Scipio, Corduroy Coon Prince and so on), is the...

Music Review: The synthpop revival going strong

A ‘Colgate minty fresh, early morning shower with unperfumed soap’ kind of clean and smooth runs through Every Open Eye, the sophomore full-length by...

Morality & consent in art publication

Twenty-one years after a self-inflicted gunshot wound left behind a mural of splattered remains of what Kurt Cobain used to be, we get Montage...

What event managers can learn from Delhi’s boutique performance venues

What do you do on the day you have a gig to attend in Delhi or the NCR? You first prepare a personal checklist...

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