From May 7th to 16th, Sayak will hold a festival of ten Bengali plays every evening at 6:30 in Tapan Theatre. Selected by senior dramatist-director Debasis Majumdar, these include productions […]
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An article that appears on sohinichattopadhyay.com, appealing for a new initiative: Trauma Doesn’t Have a Formula by Shuktara Lal Last year, I had the honour of being invited to direct
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The West Bengal Government has organized a gala eleven-day Natyamela of Bengali theatre starting on February 3 lasting till February 13, with free admission for everyone. Every afternoon and evening,
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Another of Bengali theatre’s leading groups, Sayak, still led by founder Meghnad Bhattacharya, has reached its 50th anniversary, marked with a festival of seven plays at the Academy of Fine
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Applications for the META 2024 awards are open. Contact www.metawards.com
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Little Thespian holds their 12th National Theatre Festival, Jashn-e-Azhar, from March 18 to 23. It has become Kolkata’s only truly national festival now, by virtue of the fact that they
On 7 December 1872, the Bengali public (as opposed to amateur private) stage was born, when a theatre-mad group of young men in north Calcutta enacted Dinabandhu Mitra’s classic political
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My translation of Utpal Dutt’s political masterpiece, Barricade, has just appeared from Seagull Books: https://www.seagullbooks.org/barricade/#features Read my short article about it in The Hindu, a conversation on it with Ramu
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In spite of the facts that Saoli Mitra directed fewer productions compared to other personalities and withdrew from the stage long before she should have, she left a lasting impact
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Among the Bengali productions brought to a standstill by Covid are two entertaining comedies by leading purveyors of the genre. Both deal with the impact of new technology on married
BISWAS KARI NA | PUNARAY RUBY RAY Read More »
The rising intolerance toward religious minorities in India has become a matter of grave concern not just within the country but also internationally. In the Christmas season, we must appreciate
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As the auditoriums gradually reopened this year, Bengali groups began to revive their productions that had remained suspended since March 2020. Garia Krishti’s Kālpurush presents the eponymous third novel of
