I had been following Sonia Faleiros work with some interest for the last few years, particularly her series of reports about Mumbais bar dancers and their difficulties in the wake of the ban on dancing in bars (not applicable to fivestar hotels and nightclubs, of course).
Awanderer, a nomad, a traveller, constantly in search of an elusive musical victory. The sense one gets in Biddus book is all this and more. Born to a modest Bangalore based family, Biddus dreams are fashioned by the rarely heard western musical influences of the time, the remnants of staticrid melodies he would hear over the radio of early 60s India…
I started reading Saraswati Park because it was shortlisted for a prize, which, as we know now, it didnt win. The loss means nothing. Having been on one of the early juries for another prize, I should not have too many issues with literary prizes but I do feel that such prizes force people to compare books which are quite different from each other…
Fali S. Nariman is an eminent Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India with a legal career spanning six decades. Having come into practice immediately after the adoption of the Indian Constitution he has grown with it to be one of its foremost experts. The book is styled as an autobiography and one starts with the hope that it…
Fali S. Nariman is an eminent Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India with a legal career spanning six decades. Having come into practice immediately after the adoption of the Indian Constitution he has grown with it to be one of its foremost experts. The book is styled as an autobiography and one starts with the hope that it..
In the summer of 1988, Jana Natya Manch, under Safdar Hashmis leadership, decided to return to proscenium theatre after a decade of doing only street theatre. Habib Tanvir accepted our request to direct the play, which Safdar was to write, based on a story by Munshi Premchand. The story eventually selected was the farcical Satyagraha…