{"id":331,"date":"2016-03-26T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T09:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2016-03-26T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T12:22:31","slug":"issue-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/iss19.jpg\" alt=\"iss19\" width=\"196\" height=\"260\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">September 1998. Editor: Anjum Katyal<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\r\n\r\nIf one drew an imaginary map joining all the criss-crossing lines in this issue, it would connect up India-Poland-Pakistan-Sri Lanka-Canada in a way that rendered geographical borders and boundaries irrelevant, or, at best, mere technical irritants. Ideas and influences recognize no checkposts.\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">'A production' said Ingmar Bergman, who was more a theatre director than a filmmaker, 'stretches its tentacle roots a long way down through time and dreams. I like to imagine the roots as dwelling in the special room of the soul, where they lie maturing comfortably like mighty cheeses. Some, reluctantly or quite enthusiastically and quite often, come into view; others do not emerge at all...' He continues on to describe this deeprooted resource bank as a 'store of slow ideas and swift flashes of inspiration.'\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">In a postmodern landscape of pastiche and surface mappings, depth needs reaffirmation. Perhaps our only true borders have always been layered vertically, inside our minds, strata of memory and experience which each of us, in our own journey, must cross; internal borders which bind and limit us, but which also, once transgressed, mark freedom.<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>CONTENTS\r\n<\/strong>Unshackling The Human Instrument\r\n<em>Khalid Tyabji\r\n\r\n<\/em>Against All Odds\r\nAn Interview with <em>Madeeha Gauhar\r\n\r\n<\/em>'...If you have Bad Politics you can't have Brilliant Theatre...'\u00a0\r\nAn Interview with <em>Gamini Hottatagama\r\n\r\n<\/em>'The here and now are Important'\r\nAn Interview with <em>Premanand Gajvi\r\n\r\n<\/em>A Sip of Water: An Extract\r\n<em>Premanand Gajvi\r\n\r\n<\/em>The rise of Dalit Literature in Maharashtra\r\n<em>Sashikant Tasgaonkar\r\n\r\n<\/em>I really have to meet God:\u00a0An Extract\u00a0\r\n<em>Sashikant Tasgaonkar\r\n\r\n<\/em>Theatrescapes\u00a0\r\n<em>Samik Bandyopadhyay\r\n\r\n<\/em>'What politicized me was\u00a0the Power of Performance\u00a0\r\nAn Interview with <em>Rana Bose\r\n\r\n<\/em>Theatre notes on a Bright\u00a0October Morning in Montreal\u00a0\r\n<em>Rana Bose\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Theatre Notebook<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/pdf\/stq19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the complete issue here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1998. Editor: Anjum Katyal If one drew an imaginary map joining all the criss-crossing lines in this issue, it would connect up India-Poland-Pakistan-Sri Lanka-Canada in a way that rendered geographical borders and boundaries irrelevant, or, at best, mere technical irritants. Ideas and influences recognize no checkposts. &#8216;A production&#8217; said Ingmar Bergman, who was more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Issue 19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}