an open letter from the german peasants of 1525 to present-day germany and the world at large about the small matter of revolution
beautifully captured by @ultra.whatever (hagen betzweiser) at the @bauernkriegsmuseum_boeblingen as commissioned by @die_institution for @kulturregion_stuttgart and mounted by my collaborator @edd_da_conceicao
thank you to the work of @vincent.bevins ('if we burn' was a real catalyst for several strands of research, to the eloquent persisting body work of @naomiaklein and to china miéville (obvs not on instagram) whose new book on the communist manifesto ('a spectre a haunting') was an incredible, expansive read, and @mollycrabapple whose writing and art i’ve followed for a long time.
please watch, especially if you didn't catch the exhibition :) and if you’re in the region, you could check it out. it will be on till mid-november, maybe longer.
Delphi Rodriguez, a 20-something theatre artist in Bengaluru, has just realised that her debut play has been stolen from her.
This is where Deepika Arwind’s debut novel ends, and begins for me.
The novel, in essence, is simple. Delphi Rodriguez is a young woman living in 2000’s era Bengaluru. She is the adopted daughter of Asha, a single middle-aged woman, a bank worker – dutiful, ordinary, and supportive. Delphi stumbles into the world of the Bengaluru indie theatre scene after seeing a production of Sophocles’s Antigone. She is hand-led into this magical world by Laila Saldana, a theatre star who is revered and feared in the theatre circles.
She is introduced to V, her romantic interest and later co-founder of their theatre company; to the stony Shom, a theatre director with whom Laila shares a hot-cold relationship; and Dhananjay, a magnanimous, rich, and talented patron of the theatre. Along come a cast of interesting characters – John, the journalist at Daily Deccan; Delphi’s aunt Mensa, who runs an orphanage from where Delphi was adopted; Su, Delphi’s neighbour and best friend, among others.
As the story rolls on, Delphi discovers theatre with new eyes, tackles the pangs of love and desire, and goes on intellectual adventures that once felt impossible. The novel is threaded like a play, where theatre is a character.
Read more on thewire.in
hi hi friends i think being called ‘a good book to curl up with’ (not me, good arguments) is a pretty good review. in the asian age yesterday.
you want to curl up with a good book? this is it. this is one to get. also well-written etc etc but curling up (with) as a stamp of approval tops it all, kids. now go get a copy already. you know where, at a bookstore.
@megomukherjee@jayapriyavasudevan
What does a newly arrived Sikh delivery driver in Berlin have to do with the rising level of the ocean? Where do avocadoes and billionaires and yoga meet, and what do they eat for lunch?
Curious? Join us May 9 for “Why I Want to Be White” — A performance written and performed by Deepika Arwind with dramaturgical input by Sophia Stepf
🔗 Details in bio
#berlin #berlinevents #performingarts #theater #berlinevents
“Good Arguments “ by @pikadee7 is a tender, coming-of-age story of Delphi, a young woman in her 20s, who finds herself obsessed with the theatre, while dealing with art and theatre culture, mentorship, and also navigating a fascinating and confusing cultural milieu. meanwhile there are also the realities of her young life — love, friendship and her single mother, the question of her lineage, the play she’s writing for a new theatre space, and nation bursting into protest after 2012 gangrape in delhi. whose story is whose to tell and who benefits from it? how does one shape culture if one is not granted access to its gilded halls? these are some of the questions that the novel deals with. theatre. It has been described in The Wire as ‘an anthem for young urban women’ and in Luru magazine as a ‘promising debut’ with humour, and delightful for its local English on paper. #indie #bookworm #bestsellingauthor #weekendread #feminism
The world is turning to $h!?
But for one evening - I am eating pakoda and drinking my adrak chai and most importantly reading a book written by my best and most wonderful friend @pikadee7 and I am in it.
Can you imagine that? Broken bits of our lives are renamed and rearranged into an actual work of fiction published by @simonandschusterin
That’s us. It’s our playlists and our boyfriends and our words and our secrets and our friendship and my friend and her thoughts and smashed up bits of her life - and our childhood in a book frozen forever in time.
I cannot get over this. Please buy my friend’s book - it’s about theatre and coming-of-age and Bangalore and good music. It’s about us. As a collective.
