Youth Theatre in Bangalore

Till a year ago all the English language plays I’d seen in Bangalore, which like all Indian metropolises has an ever-burgeoning urban English theatre scene, were based on existing play-scripts—many of them by Indian playwrights like Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani, Mahesh Elkunchwar, Arjun Sajnani and Poile Sengupta. These were proscenium plays of the kind whose…

turning london into a bestiary

Bhajju Shyam’s book, The London Jungle Book , is a depiction of Shyam’s experience of London, where he spent two months painting tribal motifs on the walls of an upmarket Indian restaurant Bhajju Shyam’s The London Jungle Book is a bit like an earthquake. All it may suggest is a mild tremor, but deep below…