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Look back in wonder
A couple of weeks ago, Kaberi and I were celebrating our ninth wedding anniversary. Nine years ago, a lot of…
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Chandalika & Shyama at the Cinema Novo festival in Bruges
Last week, as part of an article about the Cinema Novo festival in Brugge, this 9-minute interview with us about Tagore…
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Shyama in Egypt (Part 3)
The performances of Shyama in Egypt took place the week before the first anniversary of the popular revolution which made…
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Shyama in Egypt (Part 2)
There was an article about the performances of Shyama at the Cairo and Alexandria Opera Houses in the Egyptair in-flight…
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Shyama in Egypt (Part 1)
I know already that I will need more than one post to do justice to the experience of presenting Rabindranath…
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Happy New Year! … with a hint of Tagore
The song by Rabindranath Tagore in this film clip (Purano shei diner katha sung by Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay) is based…
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Tagore’s dance-dramas on the world stage
We are now close to completing Chitrangada, the third and final feature film in our trilogy of authentic versions of…
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A tribute to Steve Jobs
This morning, I woke to the sad news of the premature death of Steve Jobs. He is acknowledged in the…
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Happy Tagore Nobel centenary year!
So 2012 is over. Just to give you an overview, my blog had about 9,200 views during the year, of…
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How Tagore could inspire (Indian) women
Over the past two weeks, India’s news has been dominated by the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in…
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The EU’s Nobel Peace Prize
Today has a special significance. Apart from being my father’s 79th birthday, the European Union (all 500 million of us)…
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Tagore dance – preparing for a global Q&A session
Last month, the makers of the film Sleepwalk with me proposed an evening where they were “encouraging everyone to host a pizza party…
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Tagore’s Gitanjali in 13 European languages
In my previous post, I wrote about the world premiere of the third and final film of our Tagore dance…
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A Tagore evening to remember
As you will have realised, last Sunday was the world premiere of Chitrangada in Brussels. The English-subtitled version of the film is…