The Hindu Report on the Randhir Khare and Athena Kashyap Reading

The Hindu reports on the reading and launch of Randhir Khare's new novel and Athena Kashyap's first volume of poetry, presented by Toto Funds the Arts in association with the British Library, Bangalore on November 23:

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/two-explorations/article4227326.ece

Sunil Shanbag's Creative Journey in The Hindu

For those who were unfortunate enough to miss Sunil Shanbag's entertaining and absorbing talk on his Creative Journey in theatre and documentary cinema, read The Hindu report here:

http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/call-of-the-curtains/article4217306.ece

Long lists for Toto Awards 2013

Toto Funds the Arts is pleased to release the long lists for the Toto Awards 2013. The short-listed applicants and award winners will be announced at the awards function on 19 January, 2013 in Bangalore and on this blog soon after.

Writing (English)

Aditi Rao

Afrah Shafiq

Ajay Krishnan

Amulya Shruthi 

Avinab B. Datta

Deepa Bhasthi 

Deepa Kylasam Iyer 

Dion D’Souza

Himali Singh Soin

Indus Chadha 

Kaushik Viswanath 

Kavita Mohandas

Meera Suryanarayan

Mohana Das

Monica James

Namita Krishnamurthy

Sohini Basak

Souradeep Roy 

Swetanshu Bora

Tanvi Srivastava

Tashan Mehta 

Varsha Seshan

Vaswar Mitra 

Venkataraghavan Srinivasan 

Vikas Prakash Joshi 

Writing (Kannada)

Jyothi P. Heragu

D.M. Kurke Prashanth

Padmanabha Bhat

Radhika Kumari Vitla

Sampath Bettagere

Shreenidhi D.S. 

Shwetha G.N. 

Smitha Makalli

Venkataraman Bhat 

Vivek Prakash  

Photography

Abhilash K.V.

Akanksha Deo

Amit Mondal

Arkadripta Chakraborty  

Arko Datto

Bhumi Ahluwalia 

Chandan Gomes 

Chetan Kumar

Harsha Vadlamani 

Imran Ahmed

Jason Rufus

Kingshuk Chakravarty

Maya Pillai

Newton Biswas 

Niha Masih

Nikhil H. Patel 

Nirvair Singh Rai

Rohan Juierie  

Sarang N. Naik

Saurav Kumar

Sejal Kothari

Shraddha Borawake 

Shuvankur Ghosh

Siddharthan Raman

Soham Gupta 

Sonal Vij 

Soumita Bhattacharya

Vicky Roy

Visaka Vardhan Peddineni 

Zishaan Akbar Latif 

Music

Blek

Fish Eyed Poets

Neil Arora  

Parvaaz

Sky Rabbit

Tejas Menon

Tetseo Sisters 

Vega Massive

Short Films

Ahona Datta Gupta

Anjana Kothamachu

Anoodha Kunnath

Anoop Sathyan

Anusha Nandakumar 

Diksha Grover

Divya Cowasji & Shilpi Gulati

K. Harish Singh

Lubna Yusuf & Abhik Chatterjee

Prachee Bajania 

Raam Reddy 

Ritu Singh

Shaheen Salma Ahmed

Shreyasi Kar 

Sugana Sridhar

Yashaswini B.R. 

Reminder! Sunil Shanbag on his journey in theatre and film

Don't miss Sunil Shanbag's talk on his life in theatre and documentary cinema on Saturday December 15, 2012 at 5 p.m. at the National Gallery of Modern Art (Auditorium), 49, Palace Road, Bengaluru-560052. This is the second in the series of talks on Creative Journeys presented by Toto Funds the Arts in association with NGMA.

Supported by photos and video clips, Sunil will describe his apprenticeship under Satyadev Dubey, who was a major early influence on his work, and capture the mood and spirit of theatre in the late 1970s, and the ideas that had an impact on him. He will then talk about his work in documentary cinema, which along with his collaboration with writers, actors and designers, influenced his next phase of work in theatre, starting with the production of Cotton 56, Polyester 84.

Sunil Shanbag: Creative Journey

Join us for Sunil Shanbag's talk on his life in theatre and documentary cinema on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 5 p.m. at the National Gallery of Modern Art (Auditorium), 49, Palace Road, Bengaluru-560052. This is the second in the series of talks on Creative Journeys presented by Toto Funds the Arts in association with NGMA.