On 11 May 1997, the world of chess was shaken. Russian grandmaster and world champion Gary Kasparov had just lost a historic match – he cried foul play and accused his opponent of cheating (which is not uncommon). What was uncommon was the victor: IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue. A few months later, in the same…
It’s a hot, muggy day in the packed lanes of Girgaon, but up on the 5th floor of the Drama School Mumbai, there’s absolute silence as a duo of actors thinks over what their director has just said. One raises a quizzical eyebrow but then interrupts her own thought and says, “Never mind, I need…
Editor’s Note: India has a rich history in theatre, but our knowledge about the work our contemporaries and older groups have and are doing, is often limited to urban centres or the geographies we live in. Driven by a curiosity to know about the work being created across the country, over the next couple of…