The author is the president and CEO of National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA)
On Lord Reith: The architect of BBC
There are those who think it’s important to understand the text and then are those who believe it is important to reconstruct the lived experience...
It is entirely because of the pursuit of classicism that certain arts have been pursued throughout the centuries
Part 1 One of the reasons I refuse to be interviewed by newspapers, or on television, is that they always ask inane questions like: what is your...
So much of the process of living out a day is nothing but tedium. You cannot make your routine existence artistic any more than you can reduce the...
It was during a train ride between Bombay and Poone, way back in 1959, that I heard that stylish actor -- and brilliant conversationalist -- the...
Our meetings of leisurely conversations were less frequent now. Previously we had chatted about life and literature and actors and the London...
(Preamble: David Lean’s strikingly exotic wife, Leela, told me that David had decided to cast me in his forthcoming film Lawrence of Arabia....
I plunged into the task and, in the next eight months and produced Euripides, Aeschylus, Moliere, Strindberg, and Shakespeare. Except for Medea and...
Radio Pakistan was born in Lahore, in 1947, in the neo-colonial, palatial house belonging to Sir Fazl-e-Hussain, a Punjabi politician and a loyal...
