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Organising a Matric Dance: How to plan the event of the season

Are you co-ordinating a Matric dance? Planning a dance is a big job! And organising such an important event requires excellent planning and foresight…

It helps to work with a passionate, dedicated and competent team. If you have a Matric Dance committee, get together to assign portfolios and organise who will be in charge of what. Delegate and share tasks to make the planning and execution as efficient, fun and successful as possible. As the saying goes, many hands make light work!

Many amateur event organisers have questions about how to do things properly. Here are a few frequently asked questions (with...

India fans vent anger after Metallica show nixed

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of disappointed fans have broken chairs and torn posters after organizers canceled a Metallica concert on the outskirts of the Indian capital. The Press Trust of India news agency says police arrested four people from the company that had organized the concert on charges of cheating people who had waited...

Lady Gaga to perform at Indian Formula One event

NEW DELHI (AP) — Pop superstar Lady Gaga is visiting India to perform at a Formula One after-party and wearing a giant beehive hairdo modeled on the country’s flag. At a news conference Friday, the famously eccentric singer was perched on a large purple and silver couch and sported the hairstyle in the white, orange...

In praise of the second best

Over the last couple of days I have been listening to some second best musical groups. The occasion came because the Durja Puja committee in our colony could not afford the crème de la crème of Bollywood or Tollywood and I stayed put and did not venture to other bigger budget Pandals. Not everyone in...

North Korea’s got talent? Video of North Korean singing contest

A three-minute, edited video of the North Korean singing contest was posted on Youku, a Chinese video hosting service. It is believed that a Chinese net user had edited video clips from North Korean Central TV that airs a singing contest taking place in across North Korea. In the video, a 20-year-old North Korean college...