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Here’s an exclusive play for toddlers being presented at Ranga Shankara. Yes, you read it right. Play for toddlers. This unique play is for kids aged 2–3 years. Ee Gida, Aa Mara is a play directed by Sananda Mukhopadhyaya, who aims to create experiences for kids whose speech has not yet arrived. ....
All throughout 2020 since March, anyway a song rattled around in my head: People Who Died, by the Jim Carroll Band. It was a minor hit in the early 1980s; maybe you know it. Carroll, the punk-poet author of The Basketball Diaries, wrote it as a sort of tribute to friends he knew who died before their time. Some of them met wild ends: a guy killed by bikers, a woman who jumped in front of a subway train. Others left Earth via less dramatic but nevertheless heartbreaking routes. My favorite line goes: Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old / He looked like sixty-five when he died / He was a friend of mine. The chorus goes: ....