Dec 28, 2010
Binayak Sen Imprisonment: End of Dissent? or a New Beginning?
The Binayak Sen Imprisonment
The End of Dissent? or a New Beginning?
6:30 pm on 2nd January 2011 (Sunday) @ Lamakaan
…Necropolis a 50 minutes solo performance by P. Mukherjee
followed by a open discussion on Binayak Sen’s imprisonment
Necropolis : Two men meet on a street. By the time they have finished they have transacted a series of images: Nellie-Morichjhaanpi, Malom, Mokokchung, Arrest of Binayak Sen in Chattisgarh. What are they selling? Or rather who is buying? Are technology, displacement, memories of a genocide the new road-map of the new universe. Profiling, exclusion, stereotypes, Cliches, globalised companies, suppressed local needs, building dams and more dams …
P. Mukherjee, a well known authority on badal sircar. His plays have dealt with gujarat genocide, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Anti Uranium Projects and HIV. Four of his major workshop modules: Freedomspeak, The Otherness of the Body, Conflict as a Text and The Elastic Body have been conducted with major theatre groups and campuses all over the country.
The Discussion will be open format with civil rights and legal activists (TBA) present to anchor it.
