Stories for Peace To mark the 60th year of Partition, PeaceWorks sent out a call for entries to schoolchildren all over the subcontinent. Students between the age of 14 and 18 were to write a short story exploring the theme of peace. Fliers inviting students to submit a story for peace were distributed widely to…
Bolo Kya Banoge Tum is the story of a king and a slave. The king is the oppressor, the slave is the oppressed. The characters are stereotypical, and the situations, at first glance, are simple. Yet, as the students probe deeper and deeper, they are able to discover many layers and many different ways of…
MONOLOGUES BY MANJULA PADMANABHAN AND OTHER WRIRINGS G. D. BIRLA SABHAGHAR 7 JULY / 7 PM DIRECTED BY JAYANT KRIPALANI, A THEATRE PRODUCTION BY THE RED CURTAIN PRESENTED BY SEAGULL EMPIRE AND SANSKRITI SAGAR BASED ON MANJULA PADMANABHAN’S ‘HIDDEN FIRES : FOUR MONOLOGUES IN RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS IN GUJARAT‘ Hidden Fires . . .…
A play by Manjula Padmanabhan. Directed by Jayant Kripalani. Manjula Padmanabhan’s plays in English have received much attention, the daily mystery of heart-rending screams from a woman who is never seen but is in obvious pain, destroys the fabric of domesticity of a middle-class couple, divided in their response to her anguish. As the play…
Spearheaded by activist-writer Mahasweta Devi and Tushar Talukdar (ex-police commissioner, Calcutta), 3,000 postcards were printed, stamped and distributed by Seagull for signatures by concerned individuals. The postcards demanded the President’s active intervention in ending the atrocities in Gujarat post the Godhra riots. The All India Muslim Student’s Federation reprinted 3,000 such postcards as part of…
