Bringing alive Randhir Khare’s new novel STRANGERS ON THE SHORE The programme features the voices of Saurabh Dalmiya, Priyanka Menon, Sumedh Sarojini and Neeti Pherwani who enthrall with their thespian skills, playing intriguing and hilarious characters shaded with dark humour, whilst the mood of the evening and the novel is set by the gifted musical trio consisting […]
Whether you are a published or aspiring writer, or simply enjoy writing, this one-day workshop or ‘Writer’s Gym’ will help the writer in you limber up on these lines: • Understanding your own writing aspirations • Honing writing habits • Getting into, and then past, the purely autobiographical • Transforming the personal into the universal […]
The scratching Sound of a Pen Gyaan Adab invites you to 'Sarir-e-Khamma', an acoustic interactive musical session presented by Highway 61, where emphasis is on lyrics, poetry and stories of the songs. Thoughts become Words and express the need to become eternal on paper. We all write: either as compulsion or passion. We all read […]
Writer Gouri Dange takes the lid off the ‘mystique’ of being a published writer and all that jazz. Whether you are published, unpublished, self-published, overpublished, underpublished, maybe-published, pretend-published... you will recognize many of your secret ignominies as well as silent triumphs in these hilarious readings from her diary. Agents, publishers, editors, illustrators, fellow-writers, marketing and […]
Indulge in theatre at Gyaan Adab over two days of Urdu/ Hindi and English plays showcased by three different theatre productions. SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2015 An evening of English threatre showcasing works by established playwrights as well as new original writing. Orange Reason will present: The Bear by Anton Chekhov (45 mins) When Boorish Gregory […]
Gyaan Adab invites you to the opening of noted artist Bharati Kapadia art exhibition, Leaves from My Journal. At the opening, the artist will present ‘Untold Stories’, a solo performance which is a collage of numerous memories, ideas, observations, comments, through which the audience can get a glimpse into the mindscape of the artist. About […]
Gyaan Adab invites you to the screening of an award winning film by Srinivas Sunderrajan, Greater Elephant. Greater Elephant is a story of a Mahout who has lost his dear elephant Kishore. As he embarks on the pursuit to find his elephant he stumbles upon various interesting characters. All of them are in the pursuit […]
A toast to better Health Gyaan Adab invites you to an exhibition of exquisite copper utility pieces. Long before the discovery of plastic and steel, metals were shaped into objects of everyday utility. They adorned every home, both affluent and impoverished. What was utilitarian and pretty was also good for the society, the family and […]
Right now life sucks. I hate it. It seems so much easier to give up... Just an hour ago I came out of the loo and stood still. I couldn’t speak or yell or make any sound or move to call for help... I stood leaning towards my left against the wall as my entire […]
Remember the child who read a book hiding under her blanket with a torch, the one who hid his story book inside a text book during class, or the one who just wouldn’t put down the book even at the dining table? So many books and how they have enthralled us. They were certainly more […]
