GDP – Gender. Drag. Persona

GDP – Gender. Drag. Persona

Performed By: Patruni Sastry What if we measured a nation’s progress not by profit or productivity—but by freedom, fluidity, and visibility? GDP – Gender. Drag. Persona. reclaims the language of economics to imagine a queer counter-economy, one where transformation is...
Desire in Urdu and Sufi Poetry

Desire in Urdu and Sufi Poetry

Performed By: Abhay Tole Trivedi, Aditya Ramdasi, Anirban Bhatterjee, Debarghya Mukherjee, Dhruv Aryan, Diyakshi Chandran, and Swayam Nath Accompanying a panel discussion by Wafa Hamid, Amit Julka and Madhavi Menon, the kathak-qawwali performance immersed into the...
Dil Dilli Dehleez

Dil Dilli Dehleez

Performed By: Avatari Devi Dilli? Delhi or Dehli? or Dehleez? Isn’t that where the city’s name comes from? A threshold?A city that was the entry point into the fertile basins of Ganga and Yamuna; a matter of geography that shaped much else through the city’s history....
Wa*cking Kya Hai Aap Meri Jaan Lijiye

Wa*cking Kya Hai Aap Meri Jaan Lijiye

Performed By: Sangram Mukhopadhyay The performance was an outcome of The Kolkata Centre for Creativity Art Fellowship Outcome ’22-’23 and has been well received for its auto-narrative style, subtly infused with historical references to think about the...
Cast Off All Shame

Cast Off All Shame

Directed by: Ulka Mayur A doctorate in literature and a trained Kathak dancer, Ulka Mayur is a versatile artist. She has been working as a storyteller for over ten years, presenting folklores, myths, sufi tradition stories, contemporary tales and original stories...