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Age of awareness
Chitleen
K. Sethi checks out the reaction of parents and schools
to the CBSE’s recent move to treat nine-year-olds as
adolescents and educate them about the facts of life
Your
child is growing up faster than you think. The Central
Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is considering directing its
affiliated schools to treat students above the age of nine as
‘adolescents’, reducing this milestone age from the earlier
12 years. |
HARD QUESTION: How much to tell and how much to hide from
curious young minds. — Photos by Manoj Mahajan |
A lively war
dance
Himachal’s famed thoda
ka khel, a game of archery, is played between two teams called pasha
and saatha who identify themselves as descendants of
Pandavas and Kauravas, writes Roshni Johar
When
music speaks
Anuradha Thakur on the two-day Hemis festival in Ladakh which
brings alive the dull land with its vibrant dance and music
Nestled
in the lap of Himalayas,
the colossal expanse of Ladakh beckons one to its rugged terrain,
harsh climate and curvy roads. The snow-capped mountains and deep
valleys of this wind-swept desert unveil nature at its starkest.
Emphasise
the local, says Schechner
An illustrious presence at the international seminar organised by the
National School of Drama on the occasion of Bharat Rang Mahotsava 2006
was that of Richard Schechner who had come from New York where he
edits TDR and heads the Department of Performance Studies. A leading
avant-gardist of the 1960s, he is identified with environmental
theatre for which he was inspired mostly by the Ramlila of Ramnagar. Chaman
Ahuja met Professor Schechner in Delhi. Excerpts from the
conversation.
Where
is the script?
In Bollywood, writing has taken a
backseat to other aspects of filmmaking, says Shakuntala
Rao
In
Nagesh Kukunoor’s film, Bollywood
Calling, the producer (played with understated hilarity by Om
Puri) hires an American actor to play the lead in his yet untitled
film. The actor arrives in India, shows up at the set and asks to see
the script. What follows in the film is a cat-and-mouse game between
the actor and his search for a script.
High
on stunts low on substance
Krrish may rake in the big bucks all around, but Bollywood
will be better off not building on this brand of high-cost, low-brow
copycat cinema, writes
Saibal Chatterjee
‘You’ve
to create your own path’
After Rang De Basanti, Kirron Kher is smiling. With several
releases slated one after another, she will be seen soon in Kabhi
Alvida Na Kehna and Apne. Vickey
Lalwani catches up with the talented actress
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