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In 2020, I missed the joy of performing before a live audience: Danish Husain
April 10, 2021 5:29 pm
"While physical theatre allows us to raise the level of performance through the use of high-quality production aspects like stage, lightning, instruments, etc., the digital mode suffers in this aspect. With laptops, handheld cameras, and makeshift props at home, one can raise the bar only so much."
On Republic Day, a Dastangoi performance looks at the life and times of the revolutionary Bhagat Singh
January 26, 2021 12:51 pm
The new dastan from the team of Dastangoi Collective, titled Dastan Shaheed e azam Bhagat Singh ki, has been written by dastango Ainee Farooqui, who will perform it with Nusrat Ansari.
Renowned Urdu writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqi passes away
December 25, 2020 3:29 pm
The Twitter handle of Dastangoi Collective confirmed the news and informed that Faruqi breathed his last at his place in Allahabad at 11.20 am
Harvard to host Lucknow storyteller's 'qissa' on Amir Khusrau on October 8
October 05, 2020 10:00 am
Himanshu Bajpai, a qissa-go, an author and expert in the Awadhi or 'Lucknawi' culture, said it was a matter of pride that the world-renowned university has chosen him for the programme
Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories gets a Dastangoi adaptation
August 15, 2020 8:58 am
Thirty years later, the Dastangoi Collective has adapted this work of magical realism, keeping Haroun, his father Rashid, their relationship with stories, and the war with Khatmshud, who wants to leave everyone Bezuban
Tale of a storyteller: Dastango Ankit Chadha remembered
May 13, 2019 11:23 am
Chadha was a dastango who performed dastangoi, a form of dramatic storytelling popular in India during the Mughal era and revived by Delhi-based Mahmood Farooqui in the early 2000s.
Two performances in capital to celebrate decade of Dastangoi
April 04, 2015 3:31 am
A dastan on Mughal prince Dara Shikoh was performed on Friday at Ambedkar University.
Dastango and the sea of stories
April 03, 2015 12:00 am
The Dastangoi tradition is the confluence of many cultures and civilisations
Dastangoi latest: Ray’s Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen
October 08, 2014 2:24 am
‘Dastan Alice Ki’, which made its debut last month at The Attic in Connaught Place to a packed hall, was easy for urban children to identify with.
A magic carpet of words
September 25, 2010 6:56 am
In an another era,Mahmood Farooqui (a Delhi-based historian,writer and performer) and Danish Husain (an actor and an poet) would have probably held court at the steps of Delhi's Jama Masjid.
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