My father was too versatile to establish poetic identity: Javed Akhtar
By Subhash K. Jha,Mumbai : Hindi film industry's renonned lyricist Javed Akhtar remembers his father and poet Jan Nisar Akhtar on Father's Day Sunday and says he learnt how to write lucid poetry from...
View ArticleHindustani films' first superstar and the Lucknow school of Urdu poetry
By Vikas Datta,Literature has a close relationship with films, specially Hindustani films, and it would not be wrong to say that the two are intricately intertwined. For what are films but a story...
View Article'Thirumanam Ennum Nikkah' not anti-religion: Producer
Chennai : Ace producer Aascar Ravichandran has reiterated that his upcoming Tamil romantic-drama "Thirumanam Ennum Nikkah" is not against any religion and that the movie will only help in understanding...
View ArticleBihar plans to set up two film cities: Minister
Patna : Bihar plans to set up two film cities to give a fillip to the film industry in the state, Art and Culture Minister Vinay Bihari Thursday said."We have decided to set up film cities in...
View ArticlePakistan-India content exchange will push connect: Veteran Pakistani actress
By Radhika Bhirani,New Delhi : She grew up watching the films of Bollywood's late ethereal beauty Madhubala, has enjoyed new wave Indian gems like "Parineeta" and "Barfi!", and loves to catch up on...
View ArticleVeteran actress Zohra Sehgal dies at 102
New Delhi : Veteran actress Zohra Sehgal died here Thursday of cardiac arrest at the age of 102, a family member said.A heart patient, Sehgal was admitted to the Max Hospital in south Delhi's Saket...
View ArticlePakistani TV shows: Breaking down walls of mistrust, delusions
By Vikas Datta,"Mulk taksim huye, dil to abhi ek hai/Isi liye hamne khidkiyan kat rakhi hai deewaron mein (The nations were divided, but hearts are still one/That is why we've cut windows into the...
View ArticleA call for revolution, and romance: The poetry of Faiz
By Vikas Datta,Is there any common ground between revolution and romance, as expressed in poetry and music? Lenin didn't think so, admitting he loved hearing a Beethoven sonata, but couldn't listen to...
View ArticlePran was versatile cartoonist: Modi
New Delhi : Comic book character Chacha Chaudhary's creator Pran Kumar Sharma was a "versatile cartoonist who brought smiles on the faces of people", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday,...
View ArticleChacha Chaudhary creator Pran is dead
New Delhi : Pran Kumar Sharma, creator of iconic comic book characters like Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu, is dead. He was 75, his family said Wednesday.Better known as Pran, he was suffering from colon...
View ArticleThe poetic physician: Momin and his art
By Vikas Datta,It is an unfortunate occurrence that if there are many outstanding literary figures in any era, only one or two will figure in the general public consciousness. Elizabethan England had...
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Shaitan ki khala: Hinglish Vinglish
TwoCircles.net presents a new column "Shaitan ki khala" by Asma Anjum Khan. She teaches English and talks a lot, read her at your own risk.By Asma Anjum Khan for...
View ArticleFour selected for Rashtrapati Bhavan's in-residence programme
New Delhi : Two writers and two artists have been selected for Rashtrapati Bhavan's artist-in-residence programme from Sep 8, officials said Thursday.Writers Yishey Doma Bhutia from Gangtok and...
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Vaibhav Chhaya: A maverick voice of dissent into the poetic world
By Yogesh Maitreya,“With all my baggage gone I can travel light now, forging on deeper into forest” says Haruki Murakami in his Kafka on the Shore. The same feeling can be drawn as soon as one finishes...
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Noted documentary film-maker Shubhradeep Chakravorty passes away
By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter,New Delhi: Noted documentary film maker and freelance journalist Shubhradeep Chakravorty passed away on Monday morning in the national capital. He breathed his last at...
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Music is the healer, think Afghan musicians as they perform in Guwahati
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,Guwahati: On most of the occasions, when we talk of Afghanistan, it’s either Taliban or the prolonged conflicts at the land locked country. The country was almost...
View ArticleFrom memory's unmapped isles: A poet on alienation - and nature's rhythms
By Vikas Datta,One of the rather negative aspects of urbanisation is a sense of alienation, of isolation - that despite being surrounded by masses of people, you are quite unlikely to have any...
View ArticleBihar to set up music varsity after Bismillah Khan
Patna : The Bihar government plans to set up its first music university, named after shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan, in Muzaffarpur district, Minister of Art and Culture Binay Bihari said...
View ArticleAssam waives entertainment tax on 'Mary Kom'
Guwahati : The Assam government Wednesday announced exemption of entertainment tax on "Mary Kom", a new Bollywood movie on the World champion woman boxer from Manipur."As the movie revolves around...
View ArticleWill Kashmir's street theatre die an unsung death?
By Sheikh Qayoom,Srinagar : Traditional Kashmiri street theatre, which once occupied centre stage as the most powerful medium of mass communication in Kashmiri society, seems to be dying a silent...
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