“Western musical theatre and Indian films are two long lost lovers separated in time’” Aditya Chopra Leading Indian film-maker Aditya Chopra is set to make his Broadway directorial debut with his record-setting worldwide blockbuster, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ). The Chairman and Managing Director of India’s biggest film studio Yash Raj Films, Aditya Chopra has directed and produced some of the biggest […]
A trained engineer who went to IIM Calcutta, and after a decade long corporate career decided to pause and gift herself some “me time”, not to mention a Creative Writing course in the US later — author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, whose latest “Girls and the City”, published by HarperCollins India recently hit the stands, has […]
A British GCSE religious studies workbook has been scrapped from a schools website and withdrawn by the publisher after it sparked outrage among the British Indians who said it linked Hinduism to terrorism. The book bearing the AQA logo (the examination board which sets and awards GSCES and A levels), had been downloadable from the […]
It began as “panspermia”, a hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, that was coined by the 5th century BC Greek polymath Anaxagorus. He theorised that the first contaminants – as also other organisms – made their appearance via meteors that had loosened from large stars and plunged down to earth, carrying “seeds everywhere and […]
It might seem a mythological tale but in reality is about the search for knowledge, liberation, enlightenment, consciousness and the questions on absolute realities of life. “Janaka and Ashtavakra” is the story of the ancient King Janaka (Sita’s father) who becomes obsessed in his quest for spiritual liberation. It explores his turbulent life, […]
Coconut Theatre; a wing of Coconut Media Box brings to you an array of new & classic plays with eminent story-lines, performances and star casts, all under one roof. During this World-wide lockdown Coconut Theatre has taken an ambitious and challenging initiative to organise online sessions on “Chai-Wai & Rangmanch – 2020” […]
