Session with Ms. Navi Pillay

Ms. Navi Pillay served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-2014. May 2015, Stanford Faculty Club, Gold Room Reflections When I realized I was assigned a seat at the table where Navi Pillay would be sitting, I was both excited and intimidated at the same time. I did not know how approachable, friendly and ‘human’ she is till we started talking – first about my research and interests, then about her childhood, growing up as a South African in a Tamil household, while being recognized and…

A Bare Stage

Written and directed by Sukanya Chakrabarti April 18, 19, 2015, Nitery, Stanford, CA A Bare Stage is about a woman who reconstructs her story by taking instances from her life and putting them up on stage. But the stories that she tells are those about deferred dreams and disillusionment. About A Bare Stage The structure of the play is not linear, and goes back and forth in time to create this sense of remembrance, which does not necessarily follow chronology. Since the story is told both in the form of…