symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Akshara K.V., director and playwright, Heggodu, Karnataka; and Sudhanva Deshpande, actor and director with Jana Natya Manch, Delhi

• REVERSAL OF ROLES
  Akshara K.V., director and playwright, associated with Ninasam, a theatre institute at Heggodu, Karnataka

• WHAT IS TO BE UNDONE?
  Sudhanva Deshpande, editor with Leftword Books; actor and director, Delhi

• MAPPING MARATHI THEATRE
  Shanta Gokhale, novelist, translator, performing arts critic and theatre historian, Mumbai

• LOCALES
  Samik Bandyopadhyay, theatre and film scholar, art critic and editor, Kolkata

• VIOLENCE, SOCIAL PATHOLOGY AND THEATRE
  Makarand Sathe, writer, director and architect, Pune

• SMALL EFFORTS MATTER 
  Dakxin Bajrange, activist and theatreperson, Ahmedabad

• MARGINALITY, REGIONAL FORMS AND STATE PATRONAGE 
  Veena Naregal, Reviews Editor, 'Contributions to Indian Sociology', and Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

• PROTEST THROUGH MUSIC
  Sumangala Damodaran, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University

• A CATALYST FOR THEATRE
  Sanjna Kapoor, Director, Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai

• CENSORSHIP AND THE LAW
  Siddharth Narrain, lawyer, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore 

• CRITICISM, CRITIQUE, AND TRANSLATION
  Aparna Dharwadker, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama, and Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 

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