Clik here to view.
Travellers
“We (in the sense of human beings) travel and explore the world, carrying with us some ‘background books’. These need not accompany us physically; the point is that we travel with preconceived notions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Minority status
The issue of ‘background books’ that Umberto Eco raises in his book Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (see my earlier post ‘Travellers’) is not confined only to those who travel outside their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breached
Last evening, Avid Learning (which is managed by the Essar Group in India) organised a book launch at ‘Tilt All Day’ (a pub) in Mumbai. The programme was called Breached. The book, titled Breach, by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jatra and social change
“Art has a way of getting into our subconscious in ways that we are not aware of.” – Nandita Das, Indian actress, speaking at a Harvard South Asia Institute seminar in September 2014 Seminars,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Song of the Swan
Bringing in social change through theatre is not easy, though many theatre practitioners have made attempts to do just that. In my previous post I had talked about jatra as an old and still-practised...
View Article