There was a time when I was much interested in reading and (whenever chance came) watching plays. A few years back I wrote an essay titled 'Calcutta Theatre and Me'. As the title suggests it chiefly …
Self-Indulgent Musings on American Drama
I came to read American plays much later than my reading of British plays which I have sampled from the Elizabethan Age till the late twentieth century) and modern European plays. So I have got …
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Sister (Nivedita) and the Doctor (Radha Gobinda Kar)
The RG (Radha Gobinda) Kar Hospital and Medical College has become a household name all across the country but few people (outside Bengal at any rate) know of the great humanitarian-doctor Radha …
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Emily Dickinson – the reclusive genius
"When a little Girl, I had a friend who taught me immortality - but venturing too near himself - he never returned." I have been reading about the life and work of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), …
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Maheshwar to Mandu (Malwa’s Marvel)
As one goes slightly downstream of Maheshwar, there is another place called Sahasra-dhara (first being near Mandla) where we again come across the phenomenon seen in the first Sahasradhara - of …
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From Narmadapuram and Omkareshwar
After Narmadapuram, on the same banks is located the village of Khoksar, the Samadhi place of Sri Gaurishankar Maharaj, whose role in popularising the practice of Narmada Parikrama had been very …