Performing the Radical

Ashis Sengupta is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Ashis Sengupta (University of North Bengal, India)1. Theatre on the Barricades: An Enquiry into the Performative Turn of Protest, its Potentials and Precariat LocationsBrahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)2. Performing Adivasiyat/Indigeneity: Creating an Alternative WorldviewSubodh Kunwer (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) 3. Nearness as Radical: Overwhelming Proximity and Environments of Theatre in Amitesh Grover’s WorkTrina Nileena Banerjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India)4. ‘Making a Fist’: Voices from the CracksAnuja Ghosalkar (founder of Drama Queen, India)5. Pandemic Works: Care and its Radical Imperatives Gargi Bharadwaj (Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, India) and Anita E. Cherian (School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi, India)6. Radical Breakthroughs: Challenging the Edifices of Gender and Sexuality in Classical and Contemporary Dance/Performance A. Mangai (formerly Stella Maris College, Chennai, India)7. The Kashmir Trilogy: A Conversation with Abhishek MajumdarAn online interview by Ashis Sengupta8. Deepan Sivaraman’s Ubu Roi: A Scenographic Foray against Authoritarianism Ashis Sengupta ((University of North Bengal, India))9. The Voice from the Margin: Bodo Theatre Practice and Okhrang-The SkyJeetumoni Basumatary (Cotton University, Assam, India)10. Performing Faith in the Land of Eighteen Tides: Exploring the Radical in ‘Bonbibir Pala’ Haimanti Mukhoti (University of Warwick, UK)Index