Dr Sumangala Damodaran talks about various genres of protest music of the IPTA lineage and discusses about the relationship between the cultural movement and the political movement. She suggests a distinction needs to be made between culture in politics and culture as politics.
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When asked how do you define Street theatre? Sudhanva Deshpande answers, 'We still haven't reached the frontiers of the forms. It happens in the real world, you need it to be mobile, flexible, you have open space, you have actors, their bodies and voices and most of all the imagination of the…
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Sudhanva Deshpande in this conversation with Dr. Javed Malick talks about Habib Tanvir's theatre and politics, language and form, actors and Naya Theatre. Dr. Malick says, 'Habib sa'ab understood the classical form of Indian theatre through the folk form, he realised that the folk and the classical…
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Ismat Chughtai is considered one of the four pillars of Urdu afsana along with Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishen Chander and Rajinder Singh Bedi. Celebrated for infamous ‘Lihaaf’ (‘The Quilt’, 1941), she also wrote essays on variety of subjects, on social movements, issues of marriage, and on people…
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Sahapedia: We have Moloyashree Hashmi with us talking on street theatre, Safdar Hashmi and Jana Natya Manch. Moloyashree di, thank you so much for agreeing to talk to us.
Moloyashree Hashmi – My pleasure
Q: Let us begin by talking about your association with Jana Natya Manch, your coming to…
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