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Ebrahim Alkazi : holding time captive /

"Amal Allana' s compelling biography of her father is the first carefully researched, full-length account of the life, work and times of Ebrahim Alkazi, one of the giants of twentieth-century theatre and a key promoter of the visual arts movement in India. Evoking the excitement of Alkazi&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allana, Amal (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Haryana, India : Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2024.
Subjects:
Alkazi, E., > 1925-2020.
Theatrical producers and directors > India > Biography.
Arts, Indic > 20th century.
Arts, Indic > 21st century.
Arts de l'Inde > 20e siècle.
Arts de l'Inde > 21e siècle.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Poona & Bombay, 1939-1948. Escape to another world
  • God save the king!
  • Quit India
  • Theatrical pursuits
  • The theatre group @KT
  • Love lorn
  • Passing from time into eternity
  • The house of the foolish virgin
  • To be or not to be
  • Bombay dances with death
  • Part two. England, 1948-1951. The Paris of Picasso and the England of Moore and Sutherland beckons
  • 38, Landowne Crescent
  • 40,000 years of modern art
  • The antomy of drama
  • Poetry in pictorial form
  • A meeting of world cultures and au revoir
  • Part three. 'Society needs builders - not only of bridges and buildings, but of ideas and institutions'
  • 'Life quickens into art and in turn enriches life'
  • Heading for a split
  • Lull before the storm
  • The break-up
  • Part four. Theatre unit, Bombay, 1954-1962. Theatre as a way of life
  • Hosting spender
  • The school of dramatic arts : modernity and professionalism on stage
  • The theatric universe of post-independence India
  • Madras mother : the need for roots
  • Alkazi's women : agents of change
  • Difficult decisions
  • In limbo
  • Part five. National School of Drama, New Delhi, 1962-1977. Aashad : putting Hindi theatre on the map
  • Andha Yug
  • The metamorphosis of Delhi : the India trilogy
  • The war cycle
  • The East-West Theatre Seminar
  • New narrative strategies : Brecht and folk theatre
  • Reaching out
  • Purana Qila : scaling new heights
  • Alkazi ousted!
  • Part six. Art heritage, CICA, sepia, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi, New York, 1977... Options
  • Art heritage : unfinished business
  • Britain : developing a sense of history
  • The passage of time
  • CICA : a global identity
  • The rise and fall of CICA
  • Civilizational chronicles
  • I do not know, Lord, are you there?
  • Disappearance.