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Reality Shows
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Pradip Somasundaran
People have started referring to me as the first reality show winner since the success of reality shows here in Kerala. Well in a way that’s true as there was more reality to the program that I won [...]
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Reality Shows
Published by February 29th, 2008 in Art, Business, Cinema, Culture, Media, Music, Personal, Society, Spotlight Series and Theatre. 1 CommentTo The Death of My Own Family
Published by August 20th, 2007 in Human Rights, Indiaspora and Theatre. 0 CommentsFarah Bala, star of the play ‘To The Death of My Own Family’, brings her show home:
Originally from Bombay, I try and go home once in two years - I still have family and friends there. But this was the first time in the 6 years that I had been away that I was going [...]
A phone call takes Laisram Indira back home:
The charm of these sumaang lilas (street plays), as we call them in Manipuri, was that they were all played in the night in makeshift stages, amid the paddy fields. They would be announced during the day through microphones on autorickshaws. It added so much excitement because [...]
Fahad Mustafa on the stage adaptation of William Dalrymple’s much-loved Delhi book, City of Djinns:
A eunuch weaves through the audience demanding money. An incense bearing Sufi blesses us. The qawwals sit atop the expansive set, breaking into music now and then, as the drama of the city unfolds with Sufis, sadhus, snake charmers, calligraphers, kabutarbaaz [...]
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