NEW DELHI: This generation, and the last, is most characterised by the painstaking effort they put into installing epitaphs on the lost traditions of
I will cherish the conversations I had with Vishal Narayan from The Citizen, an online Indian daily. Here’s an excerpt, but do read the full article about my work with Espírito Kashi.
The worst casualty, as anyone would agree, in the supersonic speed with which we have blanketed the whole world is the local culture, and its peculiarities. ‘Uprooted-ness’ has become something to boast of, and any trace of local is seen as rustic and much to be frowned upon. At the outset it may not seem egregious but the lumping together of traditions is at work, quite subliminally, almost all the time. But the work being done by Nayyar for getting the unsung heroines of Indian folk tales their place under the sun is just as appreciable as it is singular. “Reason is a concentration camp,” he says, at one point during the interview, “our efforts should be directed more at ‘how’ than ‘why’ of things.” His next task is to test the form of ‘ethno-fiction’ to tell stories more eloquently and with an extended poetic license.
Full article: http://goo.gl/orhYqs