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Performance as Protest

“This morning I woke up, cut my hair, danced with the trimmed hair flying open all as a matter of factly without realising what it might mean to do something

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World Theatre Day 2022 Message

(Featured Image Credits – Ruth Walz for Peter Sellars) This year’s World Theatre Day message from the International Theatre Institute is authored by Peter Sellars, an opera, theatre and festival

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Festival Frames

A collection of some of the most exquisite moments captured at the IAPAR International Theatre Festival 2021. “It was a hot Indian summer afternoon when our festival director & my

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माकड, माणूस आणि डार्विन

(डार्विन या एकल नाट्यप्रयोगाच्या निमित्ताने) सुमारे दोन वर्षांपूर्वी माझी पत्नी मृणालिनी मला डार्विन विषयी काही सांगत होती. माझा आणि डार्विनचा संबंध शाळेच्या पाठ्यपुस्तकातला ‘उत्क्रांती सिद्धांताचा जनक’ इतपतच मर्यादित होता. दोन

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Science, Philosophy and Art!

Science, philosophy and art? Can they be clubbed together? How, why? A young friend had these questions writ large on her face when she heard about SPA for the first

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Where The City Is

Liminal Spaces are the physical spaces between one destination and the next – elevators, trains, corridors. In Anthropology, liminality is the disorientation that one experiences in the middle of a

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कोरोना आणि कलेचा ‘काळ’

कोरोना या प्रकरणाविषयी २०२० सालच्या सुरवातीपर्यंत जनसामान्यांना कल्पनाही नव्हती. फारतर करोना नावाची एक बुटांची कंपनी माहित होती. जगाच्या इतिहासात येऊन गेलेल्या साथीच्या रोगांची माहिती शालेय इतिहासात येऊन गेली होती. आणि

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Peanuts for the Sellers of Magic Beans

The other day, I had an enlightening conversation with my two-year-old niece. Our conversations have levelled up from being in philosophical gibberish to philosophical Marathi these days and I couldn’t

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Dancers Don’t Talk About Dance

“Dancers don’t talk about dance, dancers talk about other dancers!” A very wise eighty two year old friend of mine once said this to me in an unknown, unhinged moment,

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