Rajdeep Konar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4490016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajdeep Konar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajdeep |
| FAMILY NAME | Konar |
| SIGNATURE | KONAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2018-5236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Performative Care as Emerging Social Action
Through critical analysis of marginal community theatre practices in the contemporary Indian context, the objective of this essay is to understand performative care as an emerging form of social action. As case studies, the essay focuses on three instances of community theatre practice by marginal communities: Badungduppa, Buddhan Theatre, and Anyadesh. Globally, while the introduction of neoliberal economic policies had already innately weakened…
Ashray and Shushrusha
In this essay, drawing on the case study of Kolkata-based blind theatre groups Blind Opera (est. 1995) and Anyadesh (lit. ‘a different country’, est. 2006), I argue that performance can effectively provide embodied care to oppressed individuals and their communities in the Global South— united by poverty, lack of state support, infrastructural inaccessibility and other intersectional factors. Blind Opera, and Anyadesh have done pioneering work in…
To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore
Staging Tagore Beyond the Spectres of Authority
This article intends to critique the spectres of authority which haunt theatrical interpretations of Rabindranath Tagore's (1861–1941) plays. As Tagore is a cultural icon, since even before his demise his plays have been made sites for exercising cultural and institutional authority. A consequent uneasy anticipation of denunciation or censorship has essentially deterred theatre directors from creatively interpreting and staging his plays. In term…
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Staging Tagore Beyond the Spectres of Authority
This article intends to critique the spectres of authority which haunt theatrical interpretations of Rabindranath Tagore's (1861–1941) plays. As Tagore is a cultural icon, since even before his demise his plays have been made sites for exercising cultural and institutional authority. A consequent uneasy anticipation of denunciation or censorship has essentially deterred theatre directors from creatively interpreting and staging his plays. In term…
Ashray and Shushrusha
In this essay, drawing on the case study of Kolkata-based blind theatre groups Blind Opera (est. 1995) and Anyadesh (lit. ‘a different country’, est. 2006), I argue that performance can effectively provide embodied care to oppressed individuals and their communities in the Global South— united by poverty, lack of state support, infrastructural inaccessibility and other intersectional factors. Blind Opera, and Anyadesh have done pioneering work in…
To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore
Performative Care as Emerging Social Action
Through critical analysis of marginal community theatre practices in the contemporary Indian context, the objective of this essay is to understand performative care as an emerging form of social action. As case studies, the essay focuses on three instances of community theatre practice by marginal communities: Badungduppa, Buddhan Theatre, and Anyadesh. Globally, while the introduction of neoliberal economic policies had already innately weakened…
Politics (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Performative utterance (2 works) · Political science (2 works)