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Teej Where: North India, especially Rajasthan and Bihar When: Late July The Haritalika Teej is a fasting festival for Hindu married women. Women get together, dress up and then swing, umm... on jhoolas. It's the quintessential monsoon festival Adiperukku Where: Tamil Nadu When: Mid July-August Celebrated by women, the festival pays tribute to water's life-sustaining properties. It's always celebrated near river basins, water tanks, lakes and wells Dree Where: Arunachal Pradesh When: July 5 Celebrated every year at Nenchaleya by the Apatani tribes to propitiate the Dree god to protect the crops from pests and diseases Minjar Where: Himachal Pradesh When: July-August Celebrated in Chamba, this seven-daylong affair is a thanksgiving ceremony to the god of rain and a prayer for good harvest Behdienkhlam Where: Meghalaya When: July Pnar tribe celebrates this monsoon festival where young men make a symbolic gesture of driving away the evil spirit The North East has more...

Harvey (Studio 54; 1,002 seats; $140 top) By Marilyn Stasio 'Harvey' Jessica Hecht and Jim Parson in 'Harvey' A Roundabout Theater Company production of a play in two acts by Mary Chase. Directed by Scott Ellis. Myrtle Mae Simmons - Tracee Chimo Veta Louise Simmons - Jessica Hecht Elwood P. Dowd - Jim Parsons Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet - Angela Paton Ruth Kelly, R.N. - Holley Fain Duane Wilson - Rich Sommer Lyman Sanderson, M.D. - Morgan Spector William R. Chumley, M.D. - Charles Kimbrough Betty Chumley - Carol Kane Judge Omar Gaffney - Larry Bryggman E.J. Lofgren - Peter Benson Comedy can be deadly. Just a few directorial misjudgments and uh-oh, sudden death: forced laughs, desperate thesps, and an aud growing surlier by the minute. Something like that has befallen the Roundabout's revival of "Harvey," Mary Chase's 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a lovable man (memorably played by James Stewart in the 1951 movie) whose best friend is a 6-foot-...

De Kulture: Reviving and Repackaging Traditional Folk Music of India Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:31 PM PDT Meetha Khan and Jan Mohammad Jat inhabiting the remote village of Bhaagadia in the Rann of Kutch, have the distinction of being proponents of possibly the rarest of the rare music genres in India- the Waai style of music. (Image (c): De Kulture) Sufi Kalam, Swang Nritya, Terah Taali, Waai, Rasudo, Jangad, Kaafi � if you haven�t heard most of these words before you will definitely appreciate the need for this venture. They are just some of the fast-disappearing forms of traditional folk music you will get to listen to, download and purchase from De Kulture. In addition, you will get to know that Pabuji ki Phad is �an intrinsically traditional art of storytelling performed by the Bhopas or temple priests all over the fascinating lands of Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Churu, Sikar and Barmer regions of Rajasthan�. And that Maulud is a �form of music originating from beyond the seas in t...

Zohra Sehgal Born 27 April 1912 (age 100) Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Other names Zohra Mumtaz-Ullah Khan Occupation Indian actress, dancer Years active 1946 – present Spouse Kameshwar Nath Sehgal Children Kiran Sehgal, Pawan Sehgal Zohra Sehgal[1][2] (born 27 April 1912) is an Indian stage and film actress, who started her career as dancer with dancer Uday Shankar in 1935 and worked with him for the next eight years. She has appeared in many Bollywood films as well as English language films and television series. She is most known for her appearances in Bhaji on the Beach (1992), The Mystic Masseur (2001), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Dil Se.. (1998) and Cheeni Kum (2007); and the TV series, The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–87), Amma and Family (1996).[3] Considered the doyenne of Indian theatre, she acted with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) and Prithviraj Kapoor's Prithvi Theatre for fourteen years, during...

May is here and it is time to feast on mangoes and cricket and ice cream and of course, lots and lots of Theatre! NCPA and Junoon are hosting a range of workshops and plays for children in all parts of the city. Shaili Sathyu (email gillo.gilehri@gmail.com for details) has announced a wonderful initiative offering highly subsidised tickets to children of NGO's. NCPA will also be hosting Ananda - A Hindi Theatre festival and Summertime at Prithvi is ready to entertain children of all ages! Thespo's Dramabaazi is off to a wonderful start and from the sound of it, the kids are teaching the adults a thing or two about performing on stage! On the QTP front, 12th May - 8 pm - St. Andrews Auditorium - Nostalgia Brand Chewing Gum - As someone aptly said - "A witty play about morons and oxymorons." A delightful (un)romantic comedy about love, life, friendship and garnished with a pinch of existential crisis! To get a taste of the madness, Click Here. 28th May - 7:30pm - ...

“NATYASHASTRA” “Natyashastra, considered as the fifth Veda, believed to be the supreme scripture of theatre arts, was created thousands of years ago by Bharat Muni who imbibed the core of all the four Vedas with the inspiration by Lord Brahma himself.” Indian theatre is completely unimaginable without Natyashastra, but today's theatre artistes,playwrights and theatre technicians do not seem to have any understanding of it. Natyashastra was written in the Sanskrit language in the poetic narration style. Though it has been translated to many Indian and foreign languages by many scholars,it has not become as popular in the theatre world as it should rightfully have beem. Director Sanjeev Sharma, who plays to make the Natyashastra more accessible to the common man, believes that the Natyashastra should be presented in audio visual format because theatre is an audio visual medium itself. After 7 years of extensive research, Sanjeev Sharma has taken up the challenge of presenting ...