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Showing posts with label epics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epics. Show all posts
5 April 2021

Book Review: Krishna learns to let go the Hindu way in this bestseller

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Part popular romance, part spiritual melodrama, 'Krishnayan' by Gujarati writer Kaajal Oza Vaidya adds some real women to India’s ...
4 June 2017

Book Review: Uttara—The Book Of Answers

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Ramayan's backstories If we could stop trying to prove the truth of the epic, it can tell us much about ourselves.  Uttara—The...
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25 February 2017

Manly Women, Womanly Men

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My Mirror column, on Akshayambara and Harikatha Prasanga : A new play and a new film step into the world of Yakshagana performers to sha...
24 October 2016

Ram, Lokhon, Sinta. And Sabin.

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My Mumbai Mirror column: Altaf Mazid’s film on the Karbi version of the epic underlines why we need all our many Ramayanas. It’s ...
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25 July 2016

Starring Scripts, Scripting Stars

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My Mirror column: What made Salim-Javed so unique as screenwriters in Hindi cinema?    Salim Khan and  Javed Akhtar during their pa...
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12 November 2013

OUT OF THE BODY: On Devdutt Pattanaik's Sita

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My piece on  Devdutt Pattanaik's latest book, for Mint Lounge . Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana  joins an increas...
16 March 2013

Book Review: Channelling the Mahabharata

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Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean Via Amruta Patil Harper Collins, Rs 799 Pages: 276 Adi Parva is the richly imagined and stunningly...
21 November 2011

The Real Demon: Ramlila, Ramanujan, and the freezing of tradition

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A 'Perspectives' essay, published in  The Caravan . The week before Dussehra, I saw several performances of the Ramayana story. I...
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30 October 2011

Cinemascope: Harishchandrachi Factory; Ra.One

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Manufacturing joy HARISHCHANDRACHI FACTORY Director: Paresh Mokashi Starring: Nandu Madhav, Vibhawari Deshpande, Atharva Karve ***1/2 ...
6 August 2008

Theatre Review: Uttararamacharita

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Hindi/ Urdu, National School of Drama, June 3 & 4 In the Uttarakhanda (believed to be a later addition to the Valmiki Ramayana), Ram...