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Why was a Manipuri girl singing Tagore as a farewell to theatre giant Ratan Thiyam?
August 07, 2025 6:20 pm
The moving tribute that has gone viral has Gunchenbi singing Tagore's Ore Ggihobashi... to Thiyam, who passed away last month
As an artist and storyteller, Ratan Thiyam always came back to Manipur
July 25, 2025 8:03 am
His plays were searing political commentaries that made audiences in the region, the country and in international forums, understand the Manipuri situation as a human tragedy.
Ratan Thiyam showed that the more rooted you are, the more universal you become
July 24, 2025 7:03 pm
After Habib Tanvir, Thiyam remains the most acknowledged and awarded Indian theatre practitioner abroad. Fusion of a strong regional sensitivity with a modern sensibility will remain Thiyam’s lasting legacy
'Theatre was his protest': Pune remembers Ratan Thiyam
July 23, 2025 10:41 pm
Thiyam died at 76 at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal.
Ratan Thiyam: Outspoken theatre director who forced audiences to reconsider stereotypes of heroes, villains
July 23, 2025 4:14 pm
One who who reinvented the stage with every play and made even seniors practitioners think, Thiyam brought visuals, sound, costume, percussion to the heart of theatre
Ratan Thiyam, first NSD graduate from Manipur who went on to become its director, passes away
July 23, 2025 1:46 pm
Thiyam, along with B V Karanth and K N Panniker, was one of the leading figures in a post-Independence theatre movement called the Theatre for Roots
Theatre director Ratan Thiyam admitted to hospital after testing positive for coronavirus
May 12, 2021 8:20 pm
He is in the ICU and is being administered oxygen, doctors treating him said adding his condition is stable
How Ratan Thiyam brought Manipur onto the global stage
March 02, 2020 7:06 pm
The theatre director is one of the leading figures in the Theatre for Roots movement, in which art practitioners embraced their traditional practices to assert their Indian identities
EYE Shakespeare Special: 400 years of the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon
July 23, 2016 2:26 pm
Theatre legends Ratan Thiyam, MK Raina and Roysten Abel speak of the debt they owe to William Shakespeare.
Play of War and Peace
May 30, 2013 12:27 am
The curtain rose on Sangeet Natak Akademis Festival of Music,Dance and Drama on Wednesday with a classic performance Manipuri theatre veteran Ratan Thiyams play,Uttar-Priyadarshi.
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