Tiatr and the Goan Public Sphere
The emergence and evolution of the Goan public sphere has received very sparse attention, despite its potential to nuance the larger debate over public sphere, ...
Category: Performance Studies
Cantaram as political dissent
Earlier this month, Goa Government’s Department of Information and Publicity held a ‘Konkani Kantaram Utsav’, a cantaram singing competition in which the partic...
Theatre, Spectacle and Politics of “Indian” imagination
Attempts to rewrite, and often overwrite, historical narratives have to be always critically examined. This critical examination is especially important in time...
Rituals and Emotions: Notes from the Muharram procession at Kashmere Gate
As the first semester draws to a close, I was taking a stock of events and experiences that I’ve had since I first moved to the city of Delhi in August. The one...
Notes on Bruce McConachie’s Evolutionary perspective on Play, Performance and Ritual
The paper by Bruce McConachie titled “An Evolutionary perspective on Play, Performance and Ritual” attempts to give how these three categories might have evolve...
Notes on Draupadi – a performance by Kalakshetra (Manipur)
It has been a while since I’ve been wanting to watch Draupadi by Kalakshetra Manipur and glad that finally could manage to watch it at India Habitat Centre. Bas...