The 16th Rasheswar Saikia Barbayan Sattriya Dance Award and the 56th Annual Festival of Dance were held recently in Guwahati by Sangeet Sattra in honour of its founder principal, Adhyapak Rasheswar Saikia himself, and were a rich fare.
This year, GD Birla Centre for Education hosted its much-awaited ‘Winter Carnival 2.0’ to celebrate the immense contributions of retired teachers, as well as students, parents and alumni, all held within a day filled with fun and festivities on 7 December.
Currently serving as the chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi and the W20 of G20 India, Sandhya Purecha is steering Indian culture onto a global stage with unprecedented vigor.
Pori, directed by Tapan Dutta, whose storyline conceptualisation introduces spooks, superstition, spirit possession and reincarnation, was screened at its premiere show on 22 November 2024 at Padmashree in Garia, south Kolkata.
The Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) on its fourth edition, which is now on at the Saudi city of Jeddah, has invited many actors and actresses, quite a few from Hollywood and Bollywood.
Anupam Kher starrer Vijay 69—a nearly 112-minute saga—flies largely, largely because of the actor who brilliantly portrays a man with an incredible desire to participate in a triathlon.
Celebrating 100 years of four Indian modernist masters, Francis Newton Souza, KG Subramanyan, Ram Kumar and V.S. Gaitonde, Progressive Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Raza Foundation, organised an exhibition titled “The Four: Celebrating the Birth Centenary of Four Modern Indian Masters”, on 29 October this year, which would be on public view till 10 November 2024 at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi.
Celebrations become worthwhile when moments and memories are shared with friends and family. Embracing this sentiment, Five and Dime hosted an exciting ‘Mother-Child Halloween’ gala event on 26 October, transforming the evening into a fun-filled wonderland.
Identified initially as an erotic thriller, Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999), foregrounds marriage and infidelity as central motifs to explore the fragile nature of trust, desire and psychological barriers within relationships.
C Prem Kumar, who gave us that captivating 96 with Vijay Sethupathi and Trisha, has now dropped his latest, a pre-Diwali release, Meiyazhagan, now on Netflix.
