{"id":404,"date":"2016-03-26T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T09:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/?page_id=404"},"modified":"2016-03-26T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T12:24:28","slug":"issue-17","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 1998. Editor: Anjum Katyal<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Naqqals of Punjab, a traditional rural community of performers, are followers of the goddess Jawala Mai. They perform the Ramleela, they enact and recite the stories of the Sikh sants and gurus, they perform at gurdwaras. When asked about this multi-religiosity, they answer: caste and religious divisions are man made.\r\n\r\nAalkaap is a popular performance form in rural Bengal and parts of Bihar. Performances begin with invocations to Hindu devis and devtas, even by Muslim troupes.\r\n\r\nMogal Tamsa, a rural performance tradition of eastern Orissa dating back to the 18th century, brought both Hindus and Muslims together before the local Shiva temple on Sankranti day.\r\n\r\nThese examples of performance traditions which comfortably transgress what we are being taught are barbed-wire barriers between different systems of religious belief, are just a few of the many performance forms which, on the ground, affirm our centuries-old history of sophisticated acceptance of difference, of the other. This is a history which has always existed alongside and despite all our other histories of repression, hostility and dominance. As polarizations intensify, as increasingly strident claims to a definitive 'tradition' and 'heritage' multiply, such performance forms need all the more to be cherished, positing as they do an alternate, equally indigenous, tradition of humanistic tolerance and syncretism.<\/span><\/pre>\n
CONTENTS\r\n<\/strong>'Unpeeling the layers within yourself'\r\nNeelam Man Singh Chowdhury\r\n\r\n<\/em>A Gatka Workshop:\u00a0A Participant's Report\u00a0\r\nRamanjit Kaur\r\n\r\n<\/em>The Myth beyond Reality:\u00a0The Theatre of\u00a0Neelam Man Singh Chowdhury\u00a0\r\nSmita Nirula\r\n\r\n<\/em>The Naqqals: A Note\r\n\r\n'The Performing Artist belonged to the Community rather than the Religion'\u00a0\r\nNeelam Man Singh Chowdhury<\/em> on the Naqqals\r\n\r\n'You have to Change with\u00a0the Changing World'\u00a0\r\nThe Naqqals of Punjab\r\n\r\nReviving Bhadrak's Mogal Tamsa\r\nSachidananda<\/em> and Sanatan Mohant<\/em>y\r\n\r\nAalkaap: A Popular Rural Performance form\r\nArup Biswas\r\n\r\nA Dialogue with England\u00a0\r\nAn interview with Jatinder Verma\r\n\r\n<\/em>The Challenge of Binglish:\u00a0Analysing Multicultural Productions\u00a0\r\nJatinder Verma\r\n\r\n<\/em>Meeting Ghosts in Orissa down Goan Roads\r\nVinayaka Naik\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>Download the complete issue here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
March 1998. Editor: Anjum Katyal The Naqqals of Punjab, a traditional rural community of performers, are followers of the goddess Jawala Mai. They perform the Ramleela, they enact and recite the stories of the Sikh sants and gurus, they perform at gurdwaras. When asked about this multi-religiosity, they answer: caste and religious divisions are man … Continue reading “Issue 17”<\/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\/404"}],"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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}