{"id":443,"date":"2016-03-26T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T10:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/?page_id=443"},"modified":"2016-03-26T10:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T10:15:33","slug":"issue-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/iss11.jpg\" alt=\"iss11\" width=\"152\" height=\"215\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">September 1996. Editor: Anjum Katyal<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #808080;\">As a colleague pointed out, one kept coming across the word 'politics' at various points in this issue; but what I want to stress is that even when the word 'politics' is absent, the political is so very present. By which I only mean to say that the political imbues every aspect of our lives:our values, the decisions we take, our relationships with others. There are politics of gender. Of culture. Of religion. Of race. And just as there is political action, there is as political inaction -to do nothing can be as much a political act as to do something (this view of the political is, of course, in itself a political position!).\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">All or which returns me to where I started: all theatre is political. And the theatre worker must accept responsibility for the kind of politics s\/he is identifying with through the theatre s\/he is doing. For there is no such thing as a value-neutral position.<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">CONTENTS\r\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sculpting A Play<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\r\n<\/span><\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sudhanva Deshpande\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">'I really don't know where theatre ends and life begins'\r\n<em>G.P. Deshpande\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Bhramyaman : The travelling theatre of Assam\r\n<em>Dr Bhabendranath Saikia\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">HA-I-MU: An Opera\r\n<em>Pallab Roy\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">On Mahesh Dattani's Dance like a Man\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">The politics of production and performance\r\n<em>Angelie Multani\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Telling Sacred Tales : The art of Harikatha\r\n<em>Meera Rammohan\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Street plays for Elections : My Experience\r\n<em>Sameer Das\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Response to a Diatribe\r\n<em>Sudhanva Deshpande\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Author's Response\r\n<em>Paramita Banerjee\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Theatre and a Taste of Childhood for Street Children\r\n<em>Ranjana Bhattacharya\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Anandam Cultural Centre : Working with Children\r\n<em>Shankar Dutta Gupta\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Pagla Ghora: A Review\r\n<em>Paramita Banerjee\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Letters\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/pdf\/STQ Issue 11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the complete issue here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1996. Editor: Anjum Katyal As a colleague pointed out, one kept coming across the word &#8216;politics&#8217; at various points in this issue; but what I want to stress is that even when the word &#8216;politics&#8217; is absent, the political is so very present. By which I only mean to say that the political imbues &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Issue 11&#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\/443"}],"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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}