Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. While Indian society may have been regressive in its approach on accepting varying ...
When Communication and Weinberg senior Mantra Radhakrishnan saw the play “Shikhandi” in Bengaluru, India, where she grew up, she was struck by its comedic retelling of the origin of Indian mythology’s ...
Noted theatre personality Suman Mukhopadhyay had first staged the English play Shikhandi in New Jersey in 2022 as the culmination of his work with members of the Indian diaspora, which was conducted ...
Editor, Opinion, The Economic Times. Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan has likened Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Shikhandi , the man-woman of Mahabharata , whom Bheeshma refused to fight and hiding ...
This is Payal's first mythological show where she has been given warrior-type look. The actress has already started shooting for the show. Payal has also taken to yoga and revealed that she has become ...
"I'm the androgynous/ The mister, the miss/ I'm the good and the evil too/ I'm me but I'm also you," goes the narration in the play Shikhandi - The Story of the In-Between. A re-telling of the story ...
Shikhandi is perhaps one of the earliest trans-characters known in mythology. Shikhandi was meant to be born male to avenge an insult in her past life as Amba. But the bigger karmic game unfolds when ...
• Yashwant Sinha called Manmohan Singh a shikhandi (transvestite). Later, he apparently translated the word to mean 'puppet' and dilute the original meaning • Kalyan Singh called the PM a paltu ...
It’s not a book that you would immediately associate with Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan. The young author, who shot to fame with her blog, The Compulsive Confessor, is known for books that are far removed ...