A unique show in Kalaa Utsavam 2024 in Singapore is Living Ancestor நம்முள் வாழும் முன்ேனார் by ArunDitha, SISTRUM & Beatroot Ensemble featuring Mohamed Noor and Munir Alsagoff.

EXCLUSIVE: Talented four to serenade Singaporean audiences with Rhythms of Chennai at Kalaa Utsavam 2024

Ahead of their performance, Connected to India caught up with four artistes from ROC. Sam Vishal, Priyanka NK, Sivaangi Krishnakumar, K. J. Iyenar spoke about their collaboration and musical journey in a fun-filled interview with Himanshu Verma.

“I’m seduced by these dancers and musicians,” says Akram Khan, on his return to stage with GIGENIS

GIGENIS is the highlight show of this year’s Kalaa Utsavam (November 15-24, 2024), the annual Indian festival of performing arts in Singapore, presented by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

Rajasthan economy can grow even faster than India, says Col Rajyavardhan Rathore at Singapore investor meet

In the run-up to this investor meet in Singapore, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) worth about INR 12.5 trillion (about USD 148.9 billion/ SGD 195 billion) were signed between Rajasthan and companies within and outside India.

EXCLUSIVE: Something sparked when Dev Anand, Vijay Anand came together, says ‘Hum Dono The Dev and Goldie Story’ author Tanuja Chaturvedi

Asked how the book came about, Tanuja says it started six years ago. This, too, was by chance. Tanuja, who taught at a film school, says she was appalled to see the lack of knowledge amongst students about renowned film makers like Guru Dutt. She took it upon herself to educate her pupils about Indian cinema.

Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan urges “return to basics” for UN system amid “deficit of global leadership”

Balakrishnan delivered Singapore’s national statement at the General Debate of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York on 28 September 2024. In this speech, he reiterated several times that Singapore was a “small state” and, as such, saw a rules-based world as an absolute necessity, not an optional luxury.

Harried To Be Married: Pushpendra Sharma’s debut novel is a culmination of his longstanding curiosity about arranged marriages

Set in the mid 1990s, the story follows Nikhil Jha — a Wall Street investment banker — and the emotional blackmail he faces from his mother, who wants nothing more in the world than to see her son get married.

I live my acting dream via writing, says Singapore Indian playwright Tanuj Khosla, creator of solo act thriller My Dear Arvind

The remarkable thing about the play is how well Khosla, a male playwright, has captured a woman’s hopes and expectations and disappointments normally associated with a female hand penning the words.

Bangalore’s Cubbon Park poet Ruby Naaz asks mums to pull down patriarchy in heartfelt open letter

Ruby, who collaborated with Connected to India for the poem, titled, Hello Mother, wrote it amid the growing violence and atrocities against women in India, the recent being the brutal rape and murder of a junior lady doctor at the state-run RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, the state capital of eastern India’s West Bengal.

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