Becky Blab

I’m going to a performance tonight, and in honour of culture I’m referring you to today’s TOI interview with Pallabi Chakravorty, artistic director of the contemporary dance group Courtyard Dancers::
Q: How have you formulated your alternative history of Kathak?
I have historicised Kathak by re-articulating it as the practice of the courtesans (the tawaifs, the [...]

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On the subject of kitchens and cooking from my recent post, here’s a poem by Rumi:
Look at the chickpeas in the pot,
how they leap up when they feel the fire.
While boiliing, one of them rises to the top
and cries, “Why are you setting this fire under me?
Did you buy me for this tumbling and tourture?”
The [...]

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In his seminal essay, “Why We Travel,” Pico Iyer writes, “All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.” Travel stretches us so that our mental clothes don’t fit anymore; it reminds us over and over that the anchoring assumptions of our youth [...]

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While I’m on the subject of shows, yesterday I watched some Indian MTV for the first time. We have opted not to have a television in our apartment, so as not to be constantly bombarded by advertisements and silly shooting techniques which make the images flash before you in mere split seconds. Since I was [...]

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