“Once, a chaiwallah at Prithvi Theatre unknowingly walked on to the stage during a performance and asked, ‘Who had asked for tea?’ The actor answered ‘no one’”
25 March 2010Restless after seeing a little girl being beaten by her teacher 11 years ago, photographer Gauri Gill returns to Rajasthan.
19 March 2010The families of Surabhi Theatres have been on stage for 125 years. Now they are struggling to keep the art alive.
19 March 2010Eyeballs, Eyeballs Everywhere; Kite Flying; It’s Alright, Maruti
18 March 2010There’s No Way to Please Them All; Even Hobsbawm Can’t Bail Karat; Separatists Must Unite; No Country for Old Memories; MPs’ First Call of Duty: Show Up
18 March 2010“You submit one plan for approval. Then you make your building according to another plan. If... an inspector comes calling, you bribe him”
17 March 2010Now, Prepare for a War over Food; Govt Sits on Rs 10 crore Fund; A Supremely Strange Petition in the SC; Seven Deaths and Our Civic Agencies Still Don’t Care
10 March 2010“Most producers don’t know how to read a script. The development heads in corporate and big production companies are the worst.”
10 March 2010Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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