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Ballet BC have managed to magically push the boundaries of dance yet again. They kicked off their 2015/16 Season with the spectacular “Program 1” last night, which sadly runs only till the 7 of November. The show presents works of

Assembly, Riverside and Poorna Jagannathan Production have taken on the highly ambitious task of reproducing the horrendous gang-rape that shocked the world on December 16th 2012. In “Nirbhaya” the crime is an instrumental backdrop for the real life stories of

I remember hearing about ‘Room’ when it was shortlisted for the Booker in 2010. I remember how the reviews were full of surprise at the innovation of the story and at the unusual choice of narrator. When you read ‘Room’,

Thank god for Shauna Singh Baldwin. She is Canadian. And Indian. And American. This puts her at an extremely unique vantage point from where she can explore matters of multiculturality and global sociology. A Canadian great in her own right,

Elizabeth Hay has a magical voice. A voice fit for storytelling. A voice tailor-made for radio. Hay has five novels to her name. Her novel “Late Nights in the Air” won the Giller Prize in 2007. The novel is an

Dutch writer Herman Koch wrote “The Dinner” in 2013. His novel examined European society’s hypocritical facade of morality. Two brothers and their respective wives get together for regular family dinners, which all of them secretly hate. The brothers operate out of

Hannah Kent’s very first novel, Burial Rites, is a stunning bestseller. The novel has already racked up nominations for various awards including the Guardian First Book Award. Burial Rites tells the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last Icelandic woman to