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Crab soup for the soul

A piece of paper and a tube were handed out to all before ushering the crowd into Max Mueller Bhavan’s auditorium. We were urged to punch a hole in the centre of it with the forefinger and view the ensuing performance through it. The exercise, of course, was a matter…

Are the chairs alive?

Chairs have their kingdom! Big chairs, small chairs, ornate ones and the ordinary, chairs that are young (new) and old, chairs for the wealthy and the poor, for the sick and the suppliant, for the happy and the depressed! Chairs that stand indefinitely in your living room, bedroom, veranda, balcony.…

Unkempt expressions and a lost tale

For those who have read Manik Bandyopadhyay’s Padma Nadir Majhi, (Pratikriti recently staged it at the Academy of Fine Arts), the novel defies time, place and all that one expects to see on stage when they think of the work. When staged, it doesn’t need to be just a bland…

Some stories never fail to impress

Known tales and known story-tellers. Nandikar’s Kochi Kacha Der Hotto Mela had nothing new to offer, nothing that comes as remarkably fresh and innovative. But old stories were more of a déjà vu. Something that was neither fresh nor innovative but special indeed. Plays based on stories of Sunil Gangopadhyay…

Walk with pride

Usually deserted on Sunday afternoons, College Square wore a different look on 29 June. Cameras, ob vans, media persons queued up outside munching seconds as ‘mysterious’ people from ‘mysterious’ places kept trickling in 4… 10… 25… to around 150 and more. Buses and trams slowed down with inquisitive faces popping…

Gender Agenda

Every year, every month, every day, every second a child is born who stares at a world that cares little. It’s born with dual identity, which is callously termed as “no identity”. The child is born not to be a girl or a boy, but a eunuch. The child born…

In a limbo

“We are trained to see male or female and to plot people into those categories when they don’t actually fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely, we’ll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed or gendered. There exists a range of personal…