I wish everybody a Merry  Christmas! Xmas is the good time to link yourself with Christ. Bow your head up the mountain and you will feel the salvation of Christ. May the Holy Spirit be with you all the time.

With veterans like Shabana Azmi and Tom Alter in town with their plays, audiences in the city are revelling in the ongoing Chandigarh Theatre Festival.

‘The theatre festival of Chandigarh has got stunning response and we are feeling very satisfied. We have got the best of theatre productions and we are happy that we have been successful in bringing people to theatre even in this time of multiplexes,’ Chandigarh home secretary Ram Niwas told IANS Monday.More

The celebration of Holi is very ancient in its origin. And by its very origin, it celebrates an ultimate triumph of the ‘good’ over the ‘evil’. While, a feast of colors associated with the Holi, is the face of this celebration, the original reason of celebrating Holi, lies in its soul. And this gives us the ‘why’ of this ancient festival.

Literally “Holi” signifies “burning” in Indian language. But, how it came to be associated with ‘burning’, is a story. The reference is found only in ancient Indian mythology. And It is the legend of Hiranyakashipu, to whom the celebration of Holi is associated. Read the rest of this entry »