Last weekend I went for a theater workshop with Open Space, a Pune-based NGO in the arts, to attend, photograph, and be a small part of a session with teachers at a Marathi-medium school. This means that all the subjects are delivered in Marathi, a regional language of the state of Maharashtra in India, in addition to supplementary subjects in Hindi, the national language, and English.
There was a lot of talk about how Sita, the heroine (if I may say so!) of the Ramayana, is a very complex character, and that the Rakshasa, the demons, are not just figures but rather tendencies in human nature itself. Well, I only followed half of the discussion since most of it was in Marathi, but it was nice to see how these stories are debated and discussed.
For one of the sessions, Dipalle, the instructor, told us to follow a partner's hands from a short distance across the room, and, for ten minutes, I was following the hands of one teacher, who spoke to me in Hindi, which I don't speak, and with me replying in broken Marathi. That was probably one of my more successful attempts at awakening my own theatrical rakshasa!
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