मिथके भुरळ पाडतात – लहानांना आणि मोठयांना, शहरात आणि गावात राहणाऱ्यांना, कलाकारांना आणि अभ्यासकांना. काळाच्या सारणीतून सरकत आलेली मिथकं भटकी असतात. ती एखाद्या खेडेगावांत रमतात, तशीच शहरातही रेंगाळत असतात. ती…
The Malice of Repetition: Towards an Attentive Understanding of Hindustani Music
Music has a complicated relationship with the idea of repetition. On the one hand it is considered a virtue…
“तुजा आज्जा किशाबापू नुसत्या सदरान लंगूट्याव कोलापुरापातुर चालत कुस्त्या बघायला जायाचा. तुजी म्हातारी, आमची म्हातारी वडगावच्या बाजारला आंबं इकायला, टोकणनीतलं ऱ्हायल्यालं शेंगाचं बी इकायला, मूग-चवाळं इकायला..ईस्टीनं जायाच्या न्हाईत; चालतच जायाच्या.…
The Myth of Harishchandra and Chhou Performance: Interplaying of Memory, Mask and Music
In Indian cultural traditions, the body is considered important because, without the body, one cannot even begin…
The Propagandist as an Artist: Myth, Meaning and Machine
The piece is a result of a conversation with the visual artist, Anupam Roy. It elaborates on the parameters of his…
Far-Off Realities: Myth and Folklore in Oonya Kempadoo’s Buxton Spice and All Decent Animals
Folklore and myths are to literature what drops of water are to the ocean. Deciphering this…
This short story is a speculative fiction re-imagining of the future of my community, the Kristang or Portuguese-Eurasians of Singapore and Melaka. We are a creole / indigenous community descended…
भवतालच्या परंपरा, मिथक आणि मी
माणसे शरीराने निघून जातात. त्यांनी रचलेल्या, ऐकलेल्या, सांगितलेल्या कथा मात्र मिथकांच्या विविध रूपांत सर्वत्र पसरत राहातात. वेगवेगळ्या मिथकांबरोबर आपण वाढत असतो. आज आपण कितीही आधुनिक…
Making Silence Speak through Repetition: Reconstruction and Re-enactment as a Means to Materialise Erased History and Sometimes Correct it
Claude Lanzmann says that his film, Shoah (1985), was ‘made against…
A (family secret) memory: Late February nights. Final exams are either underway, or it must be revision holidays. An old jammkhana, a thick carpet once popular as wedding seating, long…
Art Practice as Pedagogy: Dialogues on Sanchayan Ghosh’s Institutional Art Practices
Affordances[1] are a set of important paradigms which comprehend how our sensory systems process and react to information. Here,…
The Ethics of Repetition and Gajānan Mādhav Muktibodh’s Ek Sāhityik Kī Dāyarī
In the latter half of the deeply turbulent and agonising decade of the 1950’s, Gajānan Mādhav Muktibodh contributed…