Hayavadan is perhaps Girish Karnad’s best known and most-performed play along with Tughlaq, which Naatak has staged back in 2010. I directed a staged reading of the play back in 2015 and the warm response for the raw script reading opened my eyes to the possibilities of staging the play as a full scale theater […]
Reimagining a classic by Girish Karnad Read Post »
In February 2015, Khadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum – three young teenage girls living in Bethnal Green, East London – left their seemingly normal lives that revolved around family and friends without warning and disappeared. The next they were seen or heard of was on grainy airport security camera footage, boarding a Turkish
Belief or Blood? Or Both? Read Post »
Middle Country The land in which Siddharth Gautam was born is known as Majjhim Des in Pali texts – the Sanskrit equivalent is Madhyam Desh, or Middle Country. Lying on the eastern fringes of Aryavarta, Madhyam Desh stretches from modern-day Kanpur in the west to Bengal in the east, and much of it is confined
From the director’s desk: Siddharth Gautam Read Post »
