On the evening of January 19, the Experimental Theatre at the National Centre for Performing Arts hosted a spirited celebration of poetry, art and theatre to pay homage to Gieve Patel, the polymath who passed away at the age of 83 in November 2023. Patel’s daughter, Avaan, who is a theatre director and actor, says, “Arundhathi has known my father, …
Ranjit Hoskote is at a moment of reckoning. Divided into six passages that broach the life endangered, Icelight doesn’t shy away from peeling the surface layers of things — be it a nation’s moral fulcrum, the threatened wails and concurrently proud stance of the ecological world, or Hoskote’s own meditations on loss — the loss of family, the relinquishment of …