The conversations begun in the Calcutta chapter of The Idea of India continued over the Bangalore edition of the conference, co-organized by and hosted at the Vidyashilp Academy. The wide range of content explored cross border perspectives both within and outside school history syllabi and illustrated the kinds of directions the arts can lead relevant socio-political discussions in, even including an oral history presentation by the school's students.
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Contents
Culture and School
PADMA M. SARANGAPANI
Collective History and Identity
ANAM ZAKARIA
Panel Discussion
PADMA SARANGAPANI, ANAM ZAKARIA, MANOSH CHOWDHURY, NAEEM MOHAIEMEN
Gaps, Erasures, Silences: How the Arts Provoke History
ARUNDHATI GHOSH
The Challenges of Staging Communalism in these Times: The Aesthetics of Jana Natya Manch Plays
KOMITA DHANDA (An Illustrated Talk)
Heritage, Conservation and Pedagogy
ABEER GUPTA