DRAMA / Asian / Indian & South Asian

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper explores the myth of Chitrāngadā as reimagined across South Asian literary and cinematic landscapes – from the Mahabharata to Rabindranath Tagore’s dance-drama চিত্রাঙ্গদা (1905) and Rituparno Ghosh’s film Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish (2012) – to examine the performative politics of gender identity. Using Judith Butler’s framework of performativity and transformativity, the paper investigates how gender…

Reference · Wikidata

physiographical region in South Asia

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divided between Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Although the terms Indian subcontinent and South Asia are often also used interchangeably to denote a wider region which includes, in addition, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal an…

Book · DOAB

Originally performed at London Hampstead Theatre on 3 December 2013, Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line dramatizes the Partition of India in two distinct nation-states after the Independence in a lush production that highlights personal conflicts and deflates the genocidal implications of the event that changed the future of the Subcontinent. The essay situates Drawing the Line in the context of Brenton’s lifelong en…

Image · DPLA

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