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Lyric Embarrassment: Or, Why I Can’t Tell a Story

  • Post author By Tiffany Atkinson
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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When I first received Amit’s concept note for the symposium with its opening provocation, ‘Fuck storytelling!’ I felt a little pop of relief in my chest, and in the parts of me

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Fabricating Texts for Theatre from a Tribal village in Bengal

  • Post author By Jean-Frédéric Chevallier
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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Imagine a street, or better still – this one being less than four metres wide – imagine a narrow road made of hard-packed reddish soil stretched over about a kilometre

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Journalism and the Triumph of the Story: A Personal ‘Narrative’

  • Post author By Jeremy Harding
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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When I started out as a journalist, I had the makings of a very poor one. The pieces I turned in didn’t tell proper stories with a beginning, a middle and an end. And I guess – thinking back – they were light on information

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“What Difference Does It make?” For and Against Storytelling via the Novels of Kiran Nagarkar

  • Post author By Anjum Hasan
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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Kiran Nagarkar’s 1974 novel Saat Sakkam Trechalis – Seven Sixes are Forty-Three in the English translation – is a modernist collage: fragmentary, dream-like

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Beyond the Tangible

  • Post author By Gurvinder Singh
  • Post date 6 January 2023
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These images are from the prologue of Anhey Ghorey Da Daan, or Alms For the Blind Horse, a film dealing with the angst, alienation and exploitation of the marginalised castes in Punjab

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