Jun 28, 2020
Imagine an intimate theatre where you, as an audience-member, share a real-life incident from your life and choose a set of trained actors to play you and the other crucial parts in your story. Imagine then, that you sit back…
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Playback Diaries V.51: The Actors Collective
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3 Short Plays by Anton Chekhov
Jun 26, 2020
Directed by Vishesh Arora Anton Chekhov is one of the greatest playwrights from Russia. Chekhov’s best plays and short stories lack complex plots and neat solutions. Concentrating on apparent trivialities, they create a special kind of atmosphere, sometimes termed haunting…
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Play – Kumar Ki Chhat Par
Jun 27-28, 2020
Kumar Ki Chhat Par is a play written by eminent author, playwright, novelist and columnist Shri Madhu Rye and translated to Hindi by Ms. Pratibha Aggarwal. This play breaks the taboos and hypocrisies of our society & challenges the age-long…
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A Play – Pythagoras
Jan 11, 2020
The arc of the story follows a father, a flopped mathematician, and his daughter, studying in the 10th grade, who inadvertently fails in Math as a subject in her exams. The act takes Pythagoras theorem, as an anchor point and…
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Yatra Archives
How Tulika Books is creating impact in children’s lives through picture books
Nandini VarmaAug 21, 2019
A children’s book about a boy who feels like a girl. And about a child brought up by grandfathers. These are some of the stories published by Tulika Books, who have been making children’s picture books since 23 years. Little…
Dalgona Coffee: A worldwide social media trend about home-made café experience
Harshil ShahApr 2, 2020
While the lockdown has ignited various trends on social media, one that has received a major global following is #DalgonaCoffee. With thousands of posts on its name, here’s all you need to know about the Dalgona Coffee wave. I first…
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello—Artists or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters?
Harshil ShahNov 5, 2019
Did you ever wonder where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ characters got their names from? Well, your search is complete. Here is a brief introduction of the artists from whom the creators of TMNT took inspiration. Teenage mutant ninja turtles,…
The call of the mountains: orthopaedic Dr Yatin Desai’s advice on trekking
Himanshu NainaniMay 24, 2019
In this piece 64 year old Dr Yatin Desai, shares with CY his inspiring story of how to scale towering mountains with utmost ease and how this life adventure activity can shape human character and health. Chances are high that…