Can Cultural Historians ignore the impact of American Pop Art,
Broadway (and off Broadway) Theatre and Hollywood Cinema on the
International world culture? It is in recognition of this that we
introduce the American Cultural Center Page in which we will list all
the events in our event calendar section along with a Hollywood Diary
written by our new columnist Naveen Gupta. You will also see other
pages that have been added from this issue =96 Poetry, Humour, Prose,
Books. This explosive expansion has only become possible because of
the increasing popularity of our Ezine, www.stagebuzz.info. More and
more writers are coming forward to unleash their creativity and
celebrate culture. Ours is perhaps the only Ezine which covers
do***entary cinema as well.
In this issue of http://www.stagebuzz.info/
we inaugurate the Poetry Page with Poems by the highly talented award
winning poet and academician, Dr. Savita Singh. On 28th April there
was an amazing event at the India International Center, it was
attended by some of the most highbrow intellectuals and litt=E9rateurs
of the city - even poet Gulzar was there. Sukrita and Savita Singh
read out from their volume of poetry Saath Chalte Hue /Rowing Together
which is a novel collaboration of two poets who are more comfortable
in two different languages. It featured Sukrita=92s English poems and
Savita Singh=92s Hindi poems along with translations of each other=92s
poems. Thus a reader could enjoy poetry in either of the two
languages. In our new Book section, Rachna Seth, a Lecturer in the
Department of English, University of Delhi has reviewed this book.
Recently I was filling up a questionnaire from the American Center,
wherein they asked that; if they produced material in an Indian
Language would I still be interested in receiving information in
FEnglish. This set me thinking, because it implied that English was
not an Indian language, I wondered because I thought otherwise. The
poetry reading session sealed the whole matter in my mind, trends in
literature are increasingly pointing to new English besides the
American and the British =96 Indian English!
In the Prose Section Joya John produces an interesting essay about
Acoustics spaces of a Delhi Neighborhood. Lastly I am personally happy
to present a robot series of my old cartoons - 'Jest a Minute' under
the pen name Khush. Hopefully I shall start drawing all over again.
One is feeling so inspired
manohar khushalani
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