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Monthly Archives: June 2019

Sai Paranjpye

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Writer, director and playwright Sai Paranjpye is one of India’s most creative minds. Beginning as an announcer in radio, she has made serials, documentaries, written and directed films, written and directed theatre in Hindi, Marathi and English and also written many books. Her first feature film ‘Sparsh’ in 1980 won three Filmfare and one National Award. Her […]

Sunila Pradhan

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Indisputably one of the greatest ever actresses of the Marathi stage, Sunila Pradhan’s foray into theatre began with celebrated playwright P L Deshpande’s `Waryavarchi Varat`. Her long collaboration with Satyadev Dubey’s Theatre Unit started in 1969 and lasted 33 years, during which period she took the leading part in as many as 40 plays. These included […]

Thejaswi Shivanand

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Thejaswi Shivanand is a library educator at Champaca Children’s Library, Bengaluru. He works with schools and library-focussed organisations across the country in the professional development space to support the growth of communities of readers. He has an abiding love for picture books and is continually astounded by their ability to reach and embrace readers, irrespective […]