Chithravathi Magazine

  The photography exhibition, ‘Tohoku - Through the Eyes of Japanese Photographers’ opens at Laburnum & Indigo Galleries Cholamandal Village; the show is on till August 11, 2022 ‘Tohoku - Through the Eyes of Japanese Photographers’, jointly organized by Japan Foundation and The Velammal International School (TVIS), under the aegis of Chitravathi Centre for Creativity, at Laburnum & Indigo Galleries, in Cholamandal Village, Chennai, offers a new visual experience. Formally opening the show, on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, Mr. Kenji Miyata, Deputy Consul General, Consulate of Japan, Chennai, said the year 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relation between Japan and India. “The theme of the celebration is ‘Creating future for the centenary’, and the future offers great potential for the partnership between the two countries,” he said. This show is an eye opener towards the natural beauty of Tohoku, he said, adding that such programmes strength...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures celestial wonders from 7600 light years away “Oh! look at the moon, She is shining up there; Oh! Mother, she looks Like a lamp in the air…” We all grew up listening to this song by 19th century American writer Eliza Lee Cabot Follen. In a way the moon was the biggest celestial wonder for us kids, with a soothing light unlike the sun, and the stars being too far to be distinguishable. However, there is a universe beyond what we see, we were taught later. From Milkyway, which is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, to the faraway galaxies with star dust and gas, the celestial wonders are aplenty. The light of the stars that we see today started from the origin many light years back. So, considering the fact that light travels at a speed of 299792458 metres per second, you can guess how wide the universe is! Kandinsky’s Several Circles Definitely, this has captured the imagination of the artists as well. From Wassily Kandinsky’s Several Cir...

Legendary theatre director Peter Brook, who died on Saturday (July 2) in Paris, was one of the most innovative theatre directors who used the world as his stage mounting productions ranging from challenging versions of Shakespeare through international opera to Indian epic Mahabharata.  Born in London on March 21, 1925, his father was a company director and his mother a scientist. He left school at 16 to work in film studio and then went to Oxford University from where he took a degree in English and Foreign Languages. He was a teenager when he directed his first production in London, ‘Doctor Faustus’ in 1943. Later he served as the production director at London’s famous Royal Opera House before going to begin his association with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). In 1970, he shifted his base from Britain to work in Paris, where he founded the International Centre of Theatre Research. In India, Peter Brook was best known for directing his multi-ethnic nine-hour stage adaptation ...