The Hindu Lit for Life discusses the portrayal of women and the extensive theater experience
Author and historian Ira Mukhoti said on Saturday that all articles and sources of evidence are often lost or easily confused when it comes to women in history.
In conversation with senior journalist Pankaja Srinivasan on the second day Hindu Lit for Life 2021 held virtually, Prof. Mukhoti said that it was quite difficult to find sources for his book on the women of the Mughal Empire, daughters of the sun Even though it was dealing with the well-documented period from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.
highlighting that the idea of his latest book Draupadi’s Song – A Novel had to see Mahabharata: Through the lens of female characters, she said that it was her search for good Indian role models from history or mythology for her daughters that inspired her to write the book.
Pro. Mukhoti said there is a strange contradiction in the country’s attitude towards women. While there were women in history and mythology who did all kinds of things, on the other hand, there was a tendency to whitewash them and present them to the public as complete goddesses or warriors who didn’t feel like women. She was Of flesh and blood.
developed theater
Anuradha Kapoor, founding member of Vivadi, and former director of the National School of Drama, and Deepan Sivaraman, director, cinematographer, and founder of Oxygen Theater Company, discussed the evolving nature of theater in a session titled ‘Sense Smells Touch: Collaboration in Theatre’ Of. Make.’
“Sensorial theater requires a different kind of spectorial intervention and positioning. If you just sit and watch in one place, you cannot have a full sensory experience,” Mr. Sivaraman said.
Ms. Kapoor told how, in collaboration with Mr. Deepan, ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, the image approached the audience instead of the image playing out like in traditional theatre. He said that form and content were not separate containers but shaped into each other.
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