Bangladesh. July-August, 2014. Research based on the evolving identity and traditions of Bauls and Fakirs in Bangladesh. Research was conducted in Dhaka, Kushtia, Sylhet and other areas in Bangladesh Photographs taken by Saurav Chakraborty
Paper on Bauls presented at PSi 20
Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China. July, 2014. Paper: ‘Performing [as] Bauls: Reimagining Performance, Identity and Spatiality Between Tradition and Modernity’
Paper on Bauls presented at PSi 19
Stanford University, California, USA. June, 2013. Paper: ‘Tracing the Traceless: Renegotiating Baul Identities Through the Lens of Performance’ Performed in The Symphonic Body (directed by artist Ann Carlson), as part of PSi19 and also worked as student organizer for other PSi events and talks on Stanford University campus.
Jean Claude Carriere: Writing – Film vs Theatre
Organized by Sukanya Chakrabarti Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center. Monday, March 18, 2013 | 4:00pm until 5:30pm in PDT. Jean Claude Carriere draws from his six decades of experience in constructing stories to explain commonalities, differences and the evolution of the two different storytelling modes.
Workshop by Lois Weaver
November 2012 ‘Where do you come from?’ – I am rolling this question around in my mind, trying to remember where I come from. From Kolkata? From India? From Bangladesh? From homelessness? From an undefined state of nostalgia? As Lois Weaver introduced several questions for us to think about when we all sat around a circle, I realized we were going somewhere from ‘here’ – the present moment. Within the next few days, about fifteen of us were grouping and regrouping together, playing games, brainstorming ideas, creating rituals and performance…