Rustom Bharucha, writer, director and dramaturg based in Kolkata talks to Arundhati Ghosh about the IFA-supported projects with Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts and Research between 2005 and 2011 that documented the various performance traditions of the epic Ramayana. The work, which tapped into archives of different kinds, culminated into a book, edited by Rustom and Paula Richman, which locates the mythological text in the modern, contemporary landscape of today.

Texts mentioned in the episode:

‘Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments’ (2021)—Edited by Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha

‘Pebet’—Heisnam Kanhailal

‘The Awakening of Japan’ (1904)—Okakura Kakuzō

‘We are One’—Okakura Kakuzō

‘Finding the Raga’ (2021)—Amit Chaudhuri

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