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SAMYO 10
Musically, the orchestra’s strength comes from its ability to manipulate Eastern melodies with Western techniques, Indian sounds to English structures. At its finest, this confluence not only retains...
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Drawings by Contemporary Sri Lankan Artists
by Anuradha Datta March 2011, Asia House, London, showcased a group show of two eminent Sri Lankan Artists ,Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Jagat Weerasinghe. The curators were Josephine Breese and Saskia...
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TEA TALES FROM TEA COUNTRY
by Rita Bhimani Remember some of the macho cowboy ads which said Come to Where the Flavour is, Come to Marlboro Country? Somehow, I am tempted to top it with a plea to come to where the true taste of...
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MUMBAI EXPRESSIONS: ANJU MAKHIJA
‘Braveheart.’ That’s one name which refuses to go away from our minds. Newspapers in Mumbai, and almost every Indian city, are relentlessly writing about the horrific incident. ‘Braveheart.’ She was...
View ArticleEDITING AN ANTHOLOGY OF GOAN LITERATURE
Paper presented at a panel on Identity Formation at the Eighth International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association , University of Iowa, 4-6 October, 2012 Peter Nazareth I seldom...
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REGINALD MASSEY’S BOOK PAGE
The standard of book production in India has now reached international level and, in fact, many leading foreign publishers have their printing and binding done in India. I have just got back from an...
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o,
Ed. Oliver Lovesey. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2012 Ian Kinane, Trinity College Dublin Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s personal experiences as a politically active Kenyan writer and critic,...
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CULTURAL SIGNIFIERS
Bridging Cultures Through Film: From the Melody Queen to the Muslim Madonna: A History of Pakistan through its Female Singers 1947 to date By Fawzia Afzal-Khan This is a project about mediation in the...
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MESMERISING SAROD
Classical music is a challenge and involves a lot of struggle. Every performance has to be better than the previous one. Nothing can be stagnant. Pandit Tejinder Narayan Majumdar in conversation with...
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UNWANTED PHONE CALLS
Jameela Siddiqi Never the mind that sheer excitement of an e-mail actually dropping into one’s In Box in the early 1990s, (when SPAM was just a wartime meat memory—minus the horse flesh), I’m even old...
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Romeo and Juliet
This is a testosterone fuelled production, which has adolescent combustion coupled with burning desire Review by Mark Eaton Shakespeare meets Hollyoaks, as a mostly youthful cast is let loose on the...
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BREAK THE FLOORBOARDS
Despite sleek marketing and a great deal of hard work, Break the Floorboards does not quite hit the spot By Chandrika Patel Break the Floorboards is Rifco’s new dance drama that had been in development...
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RECOLLECTIONS: LETTER FROM JAIPUR
by Jaishree Misra As a novelist of 12-years standing, I have attended the Jaipur literary festival for the past five years, and have seen it transform from a small sleepy festival catering mostly to...
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Mahanayak Revisited: The World of Uttam Kumar
Swapan Mullick Westland Tranquebar Rs 290/ . When Uttam Kumar died he filled the hearts of his fans with a grief that few stars in Bengal have equalled. Reviewed by Anjana Basu That was the time when I...
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Confluence interviews author Ishtiaq Ahmed
Ishtiaq Ahmed, The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2012, 592 pages,...
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REGINALD MASSEY’S BOOK PAGE
The curse of caste consciousness and the inhuman discrimination that stems from it still exists in ‘secular’ and ‘democratic’ India. In the capital of the republic (now known as the ‘rape capital of...
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PROFILE Symbolic Mysticism in Nimi Trehan’s Art
By Meenakshi Mohan “Look beyond the surface to connect with a fragment that resonates on an emotional level . . . “ - Nimi Trehan What is art? Different people have interpreted art in many different...
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Radhika Umdekar-Budhkar: First Female Vichitra Veena Player
By Dr.Rashmi Sahi Her voice becomes animated once she starts talking about music. The initial sweet calmness gives way to a fierce passion for the art which she calls ‘my life’. Meet Dr Radhika...
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PROFILE ‘ALL ART IS INTERDISCIPLINARY’
Tanveer Farooqui, well-known Industrial and Product photographer speaks with Dr Deepa Vanjani of his art and formative influences. ‘Ode to Odissi’, the photograph struck me as outstanding, one owing to...
View ArticlePOETS’ RENDEZVOUS
HUMAN AND SACRED How wonderful! the human and the sacred are fellow wayfarers traversing terrains - dark and light - together hand in hand each partaking of the other each complementing the other the...
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