Dipanita Nath

Since you cannot go to the theatre, the theatre will come to you. Several performers are reaching out to audiences by uploading plays or conducting workshops online — all for free

COVID-19 has a sociocultural message for humanity in Swatantra Theatre’s new play, Shehar-e-Naqab, which will be available online

Jayaram Kulkarni, who passed away in Pune at the age of 88 on Tuesday, was remembered as a multi-faceted person and performer. He had acted in more than 150 Marathi films.

As the company gets ready for the foundation summer courses, where new groups of students will be introduced to the magic of technology, Arijit Mallick, founder and director of training at Lydnow, talks to The Indian Express about taking science to the next level.

Kuljeet Singh on the importance of campus theatre and bringing Kaand, a play by Delhi students, to Pune

Parasnis belongs to a crop of young theatre practitioners of Pune who are drawing hundreds of students.

Jyoti Dogra holds her audience captive as she looks at mortality through the lens of astrophysics in the solo play Black Hole.

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

Theatre director Joy Maisnam, who recently had a brush with the Delhi violence, talks about war, corpses and the power of stories.

Assam is the protagonist of Haque’s theatre. It flows as the Brahmaputra in Bubbles in the River (2018), a play about ethnic tribes that are threatened by globalisation.

A film questions the relevance of democracy and the ecology of its systems.

Grover’s intention is not to prepare a play but to rehearse the people of the capital for a real-life performance of protest, dissent and resistance.

Starring Zeenat Aman as Kasturba and Arif Zakaria as Gandhi, the story begins with the Quit India Movement and Kasturba writing a letter, where she tells Gandhi, “You weren’t an easy man to live with”.

At a session, titled ‘Mapping the sector: Arts and culture in India’, on February 15, Joe Cyril, lead for business development at Saffronart, gave a talk on new and existing professional opportunities in the cultural and creative sector.

Performed by the award-winning Prague Shakespeare Company, with whom Thompson acted when she was Ambassador to the Czech Republic till 2018, Richard III revolves around a man who is deformed in mind and body, and obsessed with becoming king of England.

A mystical film, about nature and people of Kondwall village, And What Is The Summer Saying, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018 in the Berlinale Shorts section.

The Budget is not quite favourable for us. While the government is pushing manufacturing of EVs in India within set guidelines and urging everyone to go eco-friendly, a huge amount of taxes is being slapped on the import of batteries and other important components needed to assemble an EV," says Srinivas Reddy, director of a Pune-based start-up.

Across India, the burden of fetching water for families falls on women. In some villages of Maharashtra, an innovation has attempted to make their task easier. Dipanita Nath speaks to Tanveer Inamdar, who's behind NeerChakra.

Kaaal, the first Marathi film to be dubbed for release in Russia, is the directorial debut of D Sandeep, a shy kid fascinated by horror.