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Sumit Chaturvedi
Dimpy Mishra also runs the Ranglok Academy for Professional Arts in the city. After finishing his early education from Agra, Mishra completed his postgraduation in theatre arts from Bhartendu Natya Academy in Lucknow. He has also appeared in a feature film, Bhoomi, directed by Omung Kumar. In 2018…
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Sumit Chaturvedi
In the history of Indian vernacular theatre, Hindi language theatre is relatively new. It only evolved with the evolution of modern Hindi prose in the late nineteenth century. This was the period of the ongoing struggle for Indian Independence which was accompanied by a call for social and cultural…
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Sumit Chaturvedi
The Hindi theatre tradition evolved later than many other linguistic theatre traditions of India. It came up within the specific sociopolitical context of India’s Independence movement and as a response to the call given for social and cultural renaissance in the Hindi-speaking belt during the late…
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Rahul Kumar
The 1980s saw the ‘Americanization of the Indian superhero’.[1] It marked a clear break from Amar Chitra Katha’s tradition of using Hindu mythological characters as comic book heroes. This shift was due to the import liberalisation reforms that were taken up by successive central governments during…
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Priti Tripathi
कबीर के काव्य में जगह-जगह प्रकृति अपनी पूरी गरिमा व भव्यता के साथ मौजूद है। यहाँ तक कि वह कई बार उपदेशक की भूमिका में भी नज़र आती है, जो इस जटिल व विषमतामय जीवन की परिस्थितियों से उबरने में मनुष्य की सहायता करती है। ऐसे में यदि हम उनके काव्य में अभिव्यक्त इस पर्यावरणीय चेतना को समझ सकें और इसे जीवन…
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पल्लव
किसी भी बनती हुई भाषा का स्वरूप स्थिर नहीं रहता और वह समय के साथ बदलती रहती है। हिंदी का जीवन मुश्किल से दो सौ साल का है। एक युवा भाषा के इस छोटे से जीवन में बनने और बिगड़ने की प्रक्रिया सतत रही है। (Photo: Day Translations Team/Wikimedia Commons)   हिन्दी के लिए यह संक्रमण का दौर है। यह ऐसा दौर है…
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K.A. Abbas
Three women were walking on the side of the railway line. Where was this? Near which railway line? What was their religion? What were their castes?   Details are unnecessary.   Three women.   One was a beautiful young woman, her eyes were bright; she had a spring in her step. Her breasts were…
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K.A. Abbas
On the railway station, the sign read Varanasi. Outside the police station, the sign read Varanasi. On the hospital the sign read Varanasi. On the liquor shop was written Varanasi. In the opium, ganja and charas shop was written Varanasi. In the bookshop where ‘kokashastra’ (sex manual) was openly…
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K.A. Abbas
At midnight a woman’s naked corpse was found at a crossroad. This is the crossroad where four roads converge, one from Aligarh, another Moradabad, another from Sambhal and yet another from Baghpat. Truck and car drivers, who went past, skirted the corpse when they drove past. But one hawker on a…
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K.A. Abbas
Thanks to the ever-loquacious Lado, the midwife, within a few hours the news had been broadcast to the whole village of Prajapur!   It was a holiday, being August 15, the day of freedom. In chattering, groups of threes and fours, the village folk turned out, all headed for Ramoo’s house, a tumble-…
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