Hyperallergic

An Epic Sanskrit Poem, Distilled and Defanged for the Stage

Sean O’Callaghan, Jared McNeill, Ery Nzaramba, Carole Karemera, and Toshi Tsuchitori in ‘Battlefield’ One of the production’s most effective elements is the music by Toshi Tsuchitori, who sits on ...

Ever read Sanskrit ghazals and Sanskrit haiku? Prof Radhavallabh Tripathi explains how modern Sanskrit literature is both vibrant and inclusive

Prof. Radhavallabh Tripathi, Sanskrit scholar and ex-Vice Chancellor of the premier Central Sanskrit University in Delhi, ...
The Pioneer

Sanskrit: The language that shaped a civilisation

It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded languages. It developed a most comprehensive linguistic system very early in history so that it could easily be ...
The Hamilton Spectator

Making the ‘Mahabharata’: How do you bring a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic to the stage?

For the million-plus members of the South Asian diaspora living in the Greater Toronto Area, the “Mahabharata” will be familiar. Over 4,000 years old, the Sanskrit poem is one of the great epics of ...
BroadwayWorld

Toronto's Why Not Theatre Will Produce a New Stage Adaptation of MAHABHARATA With an All-South Asian Cast

Toronto's innovative Why Not Theatre (Founding Artistic Director Ravi Jain; Managing Director Owais Lightwala; Executive Producer Kelly Read) will produce a new stage adaptation of the epic Sanskrit ...