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22 Mar
2023
  • Diksha Bisla

Hunkaro- Three powerful interwoven tales of hope in the midst of unrelenting turmoil

“What is deeper than the oceans, heavier than the Earth, brighter than the Sun and immortal as the gods? Hope.”...

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20 Mar
2023
  • Eric Chopra

Nooramma: Biryani Durbar - A Moving Tale of Struggle and Survival

“For marginalised communities like mine, what has given us a history is food.”    Noor Jahan Begum, lovingly known as Noor,...

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20 Mar
2023
  • Hiba Abbas

Chaai Garam

At the 18th edition of the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, a moving performance is set in a period which...

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16 Mar
2023
  • Rohan Chopra

Notions

At the 18th edition of Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, be prepared to be transported into the mesmerising world of...

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16 Mar
2023
  • Rohan Chopra

Lavani ke Rang

What do love, desire and nature have in common? How can their depiction through folk songs using traditional motifs and...

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14 Mar
2023
  • Arundhati Nath

Burn Out – An extraordinary tour de force of everywoman’s indomitable spirit

Burn Out, an Assamese play and a META 2023 TOP 10 finalist, is a one-woman show. The director, Barnali Medhi,...

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10 Mar
2023
  • Ishan Roy

Namak – A tale of grit amongst a trail of hardship

With the stage doors opening on the evening of the 23rd of March, Srinivas Beesetty’s poignant political production, Namak, which...

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10 Jul
2022
  • Arundhati Nath

Ghoom Nei - A Saga of Explosive Grit

‘Ghoom Nei’, the impactful and earthy closing play of META 2022, held onstage last night, became to me a metaphor...

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09 Jul
2022
  • Eric Chopra

The Old Man

Vodai’s fate seems to be submerged under a cruel aquatic plot. It has been 83 days since Vodai, the old...

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08 Jul
2022
  • Diksha Bisla

Bhaskara Pattelarum Thommiyude Jeevithavum

The play opened in media res with an assiduously choreographed murder. While the stage was being set with sinister background...

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