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Film
Bird Bites: Unnati & Jyotsna jazz; modern take on ballad of ‘Mohaur Pala’; Six South Asian books vye for $25,000 literary prize; corporate doc has human tale of beauty and help across continents
Bite-size takes on music coming up, a books prize shortlist announced in London and how stories are being told in…
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Festivals
Darbar Dance 2019 – Changing the narrative: new perspectives on old and trusted ways in Indian classical dance…
Radical, progressive and global in form and content, Indian classical dance is striking out in new ways, says festival co-curator…
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Books
Humble The Poet – from down and out to social media global spoken word star… (Bagri Foundation Asia House Festival of Literature closing event)
The artist shared stories about his life and talked about his latest book to a sold-out event in Central London……
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Art
Riz Ahmed highest ranked arts personality in annual British Asian Power List 101…
The GG2 Power List 2020 is out… JUST over a third of the country’s most powerful Asians work in the…
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Film
Sanya Malhotra (video) – on ‘Dangal’, ‘Photograph’ and breaking through into Bollywood (update)
Rising star talks to acv about her career… SHOOTING for the film ‘Shakuntala Devi‘, a biopic about the Indian woman…
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Main Headlines
Shankar 100 – Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar centenary to be celebrated with concerts, films, and exhibition at Southbank Centre in 2020
Daughter Anoushka has played a leading part in putting together a range of events to mark her late and great…
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Bird Bites: Theatre – Anjana Vasan award nomination; ‘Life of Pi’ awards; Esh Alladi win; Women’s ‘Objections to war’; Black theatre Eclipse leadership changes; Madani Younis – Diversity in peril?; Michael Billington stepping down
ANJANA VASAN who was the star of the recent Tanika Gupta Ibsen adaptation of ‘A Doll’s House’ has been nominated…
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Main Story
‘Ghost Quartet’ (review): Spirits lose force as they take on too much, but production has charm and quality…
by Momtaz Begum-Hossain Freewheeling musical has its merits but tries too hard to impress… CONCEPT-WISE, David Malloy’s ‘Ghost Quartet’ couldn’t…
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Main Story
‘When the crows visit’ (review) – powerful play highlights price of both casual and brutal misogyny…
India may be the setting but there are universal truths in this… By Sailesh Ram DARK and intense, ‘When the…
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Main Headlines
‘When the crows visit’ – playwright talks misogyny, power relations and morality as premiere hits London
How much conflict can there be between a son and a mother who knows her offspring has erred and seriously…
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