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The 24-hour Film!
When Hollywood directors were asked if they could shoot a feature film in 24 hours, they said impossible, they required at least four months. That's because of rehearsals, availability of studios, sets, actors and production crew. An Indian producer went out to make the impossible possible, and as an afterthought threw in song and dance sequences, action and nine weddings and a near funeral! Read on ...
Weave of Survival
The master weavers of Kaithan, who have enchanted generations of Indian women with their famed Kota doria saris, are leading a threadbare existence today. Everyone in the families must weave to survive, even the small daughters. Read on ...
A Train journey beyond Childhood
Over 60 years ago, a train carried 10,000 German-Jewish children away from their parents in Germany to distant England, to save them from a terrible fate. Most of them never saw their parents again, reveals a jolting TV documentary. Read on ...
The Story-tellers
What happens when a story-lover meets someone who loves telling stories? Magic. The narrator talks about the treasure-chest of tales that has been unlocked for her by two Myanmarese women. Read on ...
Festival of Lights
Whether it is the worship of divine physician Dhanvantari in Bihar, the fearsome Kali in West Bengal, or Lakshmi all over the country, Diwali is the biggest Hindu festival of India. And as Mughal emperor Akbar showed more than 400 years ago, one doesn't have to be a Hindu to enjoy it, either. Read on ...
The Story of Diwali
A post harvest festival, a festival of the trading community, or a festival to celebrate the triumph of a prince and his return home after years of exile? Over time, the festival has acquired fascinating layers of meanings. Read on ...
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Rediscovering a Smokeless Diwali
For one, crackers remind you of the child workers of Sivaksai who make them in dangerous conditions. Secondly, the firecracker smoke envelops all in a suffocating grip. Now schoolchildren, NGOs, traders and governments, too, are learning to say that this is not the kind of Diwali they want. Read on ...
Dancing to Glory
Some of them couldn't see, others couldn't hear, still others couldn't walk properly. But none of these handicaps prevented a group of children from joyously dancing their way into the audience's heart, in a dance-drama festival. Read on ...
Chip off the Old Block
An angry chef's sudden discovery, the potato chip is today the world's favourite junk-food accompaniment. Read on ...
Sundari
It is an incident etched in the writer's mind -- her meeting with the tiger cub Sundari, in a neighbour's house. Read on ...
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