A Dramaturgy of Civilisation
THE COURTESAN AND THE SAINT A Dramaturgy of Civilisation A mirror does not interpret. It shows For those who could not attend the launch, you can read and engage with it here. This is a typed copy from my draft/read. What are these poems about? The poems are meditations on Dharma. Every one knows what Dharma is, still, it’s precisely in the simple knowing that it remains invisible. I will not venture into the invisible and will only say that this collection holds a mirror to time; not to any single moment but to the long arc from the courts of Hastinapur to the coded grids of the present. What the mirror reveals is not progress. It is a pattern: the thread weakens, the court forgets, sovereignty detaches from its sacred ground, and the world fragments. What it also reveals; held in the glass if you look steadily enough, is that the ground itself does not disappear. It waits. The Sutradhar The sutradhar in classical Indian theatre is ...