Anubha Fatehpuria and Naveen Kishore come together to ‘perform’ a very personal documentary attempting to explore the special relationship that Mahasweta Devi enjoyed with the lives that peopled her writing and the people that fueled her activism. In a series of four conversations on the screen from the film entitled Talking Writing, directed by Pushan Kripalani, interspersed with live readings performed by Anubha and Naveen from her writing, her interviews, Naveen’s poems of our city, more conversations, we revisit her life in a ‘travelogue’ that weaves in and out of her story—a young woman writer trying to make her mark in a male dominated publishing world, coming to age both as a wife and a mother, a relationship with her once-estranged son—and the story of a nation in the throes of a freedom struggle, the realization that freedom is a privilege for the haves while the have-nots merely change masters in their struggle against slavery, the choice to actively oppose all that reeks of injustice, to record through her journalism and her fiction the less-than-human life of the tribals she had spent all her life fighting for, to remember the shoulder-to-shoulder camaraderie of the Left. A vital tapestry creates of the ‘terrain’ of her writing.
Event Venue
Arthshila Patna, Bailey Rd, Rupaspur, Ramjaipal Nagar, Khajpura, Patna, Bihar 801503, India
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