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Ranjona Banerji | Inside The Mind Of An Internet Troll

Ranjona Banerji | Inside The Mind Of An Internet Troll

But you know what upsets these trolls even more than being female, Bengali, witches, Islamo whatever? It’s being all...

16 May 2026 10:15 PM IST

Shakespeare for the modern times

The tragic Lucrece has a connect with the woman of today says Paul Goodwin, who will premiere an adaptation of the poem...

28 Nov 2017 5:53 AM IST

Preti first got introduced to King Lear at school where her teacher inspired her to see the relevance of the play in her own life. (Photo: Louise Haywood Schiefer)

Modern take on Lear

A debut novel adapts a Shakespearean tragedy and sets it in modern India.

22 Nov 2017 2:51 AM IST

Vishal Bhardwaj.

After Rangoon, Vishal Bhardwaj to adapt book on Osama, al-Qaida

He is taking a break from Shakespeare and will be adapting 'The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and...

26 Sept 2017 12:45 PM IST

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Tomb of 'China's Shakespeare' Tang Xianzu discovered

Find out more about Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu.

3 Sept 2017 1:49 PM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru

Rare Nehru document at IIT-Roorkee library

Having grown slowly since the British period, the library has a good archival collection, he said.

5 Feb 2019 2:16 AM IST

A scene from Shadowing the Wild Woman (Photo: Kalakshetra Manipur (KKM) Archive)

Margins to mainstream

In the midst of contemporary theatre, some exponents are going back to their roots to include folk art forms in their...

1 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST

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Lear's lessons for our times: Should armies be retired?

Zia Mohyeddin's latest production King Lear was performed in Lahore by the National Academy of Performing Arts, after an...

15 Feb 2020 3:03 AM IST

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When Shakespeare' speaks on Indian politics

Rahul Gandhi has been missing from the anti-CAA protests, I posed. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, he...

5 March 2020 1:58 AM IST

The Royal Shakespeare Company has appointed a sort of czar to point out to schoolchildren the racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, sizeism in his works. (Representational Image/AFP)

Racism warning' for Shakespeare, Hemingway: Is it tip of the iceberg?

In my critical understanding there is woke, and there is what has to be labelled 'Jwoke'!

4 March 2022 11:55 PM IST

Staged for the first time in 1989, KathakaliKing Lear was then translated by Malayali poet Marumakan Raja, and has since then been performed multiple times around the world.

The Bard goes South

Hailing from France, India is Annette's source of inspiration and a second home for over three decades.

12 Dec 2018 1:01 AM IST

Students take part in a protest demanding the release of JNU student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, accused of sedition, in New Delhi in Feb. 2016.

Intolerance is engineered

Students becoming pawns on political chess board. Course contents have a strong political flavour.

6 March 2018 1:33 AM IST