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Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015, Mumbai 2 « socialmantra
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Giving expression to a new social culture. Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015, Mumbai 2. February 23, 2015. Over the last few days of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015, I attended many more events and performances which are worth mentioning. Dozakh in Search of Heaven. A film by Zaigham Imam. A documentary film by Faiza Ahmad Khan. A discussion on the changes in Indian Classical Music, both in the Karnatak tradition and the Hindustani tradition, was held at the David Sassoon Library garden. This informati...
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Playing with Memories « socialmantra
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Giving expression to a new social culture. Lots of colourful photographs of places in India mostly in and around Mumbai. A handful of poems and short fiction. Click on Playing with Memories. To see and read. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Manoj Mitra: two Bengali plays « socialmantra
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Giving expression to a new social culture. Manoj Mitra: two Bengali plays. July 18, 2015. In the editorial of Journal of Bengali Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1. Spring Issue dated 27 March 2013, which focuses on Bengali Theatre: Bengalis and Theatre, the editors write,. Translated by Sangeeta and Ranjan Ghosal) and An Encounter With Royalty. Translated by Ranjan Ghosal). Image courtesy http:/ www.seagullbooks.org. He and his plays are loved by Bengalis of several generations and are popular. Is the story of a po...
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Giving expression to a new social culture. Anil Thakraney: An Invitation To Death. July 11, 2015. It’s on his website. Now and I took the opportunity to pick his brains before the book hit the bookstores or was available online. He still isn’t talking much, but I hope this short Q&A between us will be enough to encourage you to go after Anil Thakraney and his debut novel An Invitation To Death. Image courtesy http:/ anilthakraney.com/. I mean in terms of graphic violence, sex, etc? You will have to read ...
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The debt to higher education « socialmantra
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Giving expression to a new social culture. The debt to higher education. July 1, 2014. The same way all debts do: in the hollow space between what one wants and what one has. That’s how Chadwick Matlin begins his enlightening story on ‘How to pay off a mountain of student debt in six (long) years’. The story is actually and aptly titled The $124,421 Man. Story is just one among hundreds of thousands of stories about student debt most of which we don’t get to hear. In the US itself, student loan debt has ...
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March « 2015 « socialmantra
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Giving expression to a new social culture. Monthly Archives: March 2015. Human Power: Arts for Social Change. March 29, 2015. Last Friday evening, I attended a discussion on Human Power: Arts for Social Change. Organised by Avid Learning (of the Essar Group) and Good Earth (a home decor store) in Mumbai. At the discussion, Jeroo Mulla. Jeroo Mulla, Paolo Regis and Astad Deboo. Talked about his ‘flowing’ photography (displayed on the walls of Good Earth), the proceeds from the sales of which contributed t...
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Giving expression to a new social culture. Monthly Archives: June 2015. Song of the Swan. June 25, 2015. Bringing in social change through theatre is not easy, though many theatre practitioners have made attempts to do just that. In my previous post I had talked about. The director (extreme left) and cast of Song of the Swan. I’d say Knot Theatre has been able to invoke what most theatre productions try to achieve. Song of the Swan. Of Song of the Swan. Can be found here. Jatra and social change. Nandita...
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What is your main reason for applying to university? « socialmantra
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Giving expression to a new social culture. What is your main reason for applying to university? August 15, 2014. That is true, of course, if you’re in the privileged lot. Because much of India is poor and education, especially higher education, is a distant cry for them when rights to food, safety, security, sanitation, healthcare, electricity, etc. are not honoured. But that’s another story. Image courtesy 2014.globeseries.com. However, questions are asked about selection of subjects to study; about col...
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Giving expression to a new social culture. The commodification of education in India. September 10, 2015. Questions arise: Can this brain drain be reversed? Can Indian institutes of higher education take up the challenge to improve their standards and rise above the mediocrity that dogs its very essence? And most significantly, where would they start? There has been much lamentation in the country of late over the fact that no institution of higher learning figures in the list of top 100 prepared by The ...
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Giving expression to a new social culture. Monthly Archives: July 2015. July 28, 2015. When Dick Costolo decided to step down as Twitter’s CEO, there was a flutter in the industry as to what Twitter would do now. And, more precisely, who would be Twitter’s next CEO? According to a news report by TechCrunch. An exceptional leaderwho can make things happen. When probed further, Mr Williams had said that the CEO’s role would be more to do with strategy than with product or revenue:. It may also mean the com...
