Rustom Bharucha is a writer, cultural critic, and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World, The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice, Rajasthan, Another Asia, and Terror and Performance.

• Preface1. Photography in the PandemicPreambleHospitalCrematoriaGanga Censoring the pandemicOwnershipThe Long MarchProblematizing durationRepresenting Jamlo Ethics of cryingIn the eyes of the law2. No time to MournSymptoms of griefThe Case of Ram Pukar PanditLiving with the deadPerforming mourning: life and art“Artistic” mourning practicesa.Artificeb.Objectsc.Documentaryd.Spectacle“Rudali”: mourning as survival“Walk”: mourning as resistanceMourning: performed or real?3. Endings/BeginningsExitOn the Cusp of Multiple TimesGenocideExtinctionHiroshima museumized: aporias of peaceThe ethos of waitingReclaiming the vitality of the bodyStillness in movementa.Pranab.Oxygen Breath, breathlessness, and combat breathingPostscriptNotes

"An extraordinarily thoughtful meditation on the depiction of illness, death and displacement, the expression of loss and grief, and the possible positive potential of the pandemic experience for the future."

Rustom Bharucha is a writer, cultural critic, and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World, The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice, Rajasthan, Another Asia, and Terror and Performance.

• Preface1. Photography in the PandemicPreambleHospitalCrematoriaGanga Censoring the pandemicOwnershipThe Long MarchProblematizing durationRepresenting Jamlo Ethics of cryingIn the eyes of the law2. No time to MournSymptoms of griefThe Case of Ram Pukar PanditLiving with the deadPerforming mourning: life and art“Artistic” mourning practicesa.Artificeb.Objectsc.Documentaryd.Spectacle“Rudali”: mourning as survival“Walk”: mourning as resistanceMourning: performed or real?3. Endings/BeginningsExitOn the Cusp of Multiple TimesGenocideExtinctionHiroshima museumized: aporias of peaceThe ethos of waitingReclaiming the vitality of the bodyStillness in movementa.Pranab.Oxygen Breath, breathlessness, and combat breathingPostscriptNotes

"An extraordinarily thoughtful meditation on the depiction of illness, death and displacement, the expression of loss and grief, and the possible positive potential of the pandemic experience for the future."

Rustom Bharucha is a writer, cultural critic, and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World, The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice, Rajasthan, Another Asia, and Terror and Performance.

• Preface1. Photography in the PandemicPreambleHospitalCrematoriaGanga Censoring the pandemicOwnershipThe Long MarchProblematizing durationRepresenting Jamlo Ethics of cryingIn the eyes of the law2. No time to MournSymptoms of griefThe Case of Ram Pukar PanditLiving with the deadPerforming mourning: life and art“Artistic” mourning practicesa.Artificeb.Objectsc.Documentaryd.Spectacle“Rudali”: mourning as survival“Walk”: mourning as resistanceMourning: performed or real?3. Endings/BeginningsExitOn the Cusp of Multiple TimesGenocideExtinctionHiroshima museumized: aporias of peaceThe ethos of waitingReclaiming the vitality of the bodyStillness in movementa.Pranab.Oxygen Breath, breathlessness, and combat breathingPostscriptNotes

"An extraordinarily thoughtful meditation on the depiction of illness, death and displacement, the expression of loss and grief, and the possible positive potential of the pandemic experience for the future."