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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicAlyque Padamsee

Topic: Alyque Padamsee

Gerson Da Cunha told me theatre is a great education. I understand it now: Tara Deshpande

Gerson Da Cunha may have hailed from the golden era of advertising. But many will credit him for introducing the talents of Shyam Benegal and Alyque Padamsee to India.

Covid or Netflix, nothing can stop theatre. Hyderabad’s Qadir Ali Baig Festival shows why

The cultural space in India may be contested, but theatre is certainly not cancelled. What's unfortunate is the 'bechara' tag that theatre persons should have countered long ago.

When Alyque Padamsee and I went public, I was shunned. But Alyque wasn’t: Dolly Thakore

In her memoir, veteran theatre personality Dolly Thakore writes candidly about love, sex, infidelity, motherhood, commitment, and heartbreaks.

The KamaSutra ad that changed the role of condoms in India from functional to pleasurable

Depicting a sensuous Pooja Bedi in the shower, the 1991 ad was a landmark for being the first in India to show the contraceptive as a tool of pleasure.

Liril and Lalitaji: A tale of two ads and how they captured India’s attention

The two ads created by Alyque Padamsee showed India at the cusp of change.

Alyque Padamsee, the ad genius who kept advertisements simple and direct

Alyque Padamsee, who died Saturday, was also a theatre personality & played Jinnah to Ben Kingsley’s Gandhi in the 1982 Oscar winner

भारत का पहला ‘सेक्सी’ कंडोम विज्ञापन और उसकी खट्टी-मीठी यादें

भारत में कंडोम के पहले विज्ञापन पर विज्ञापनगुरु अलिक पदमसी की टिप्पणी और दर्शकों की प्रतिक्रिया

How India reacted to its first ‘sexy’ condom ad

Ad guru Alyque Padamsee talks about how the first condom ad in India came to be and the audience reaction to it.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.