Most of Maraa’s pedagogical search began from art, gender, knowledge, media, education, development and policy questions we had ourselves, and through these, our want to engender dialogue and critical questioning within spaces of disciplines, learning, practice and philosophy. Since most of our background, approaches and interests are interdisciplinary, the models for pedagogy were also drawn …

Bengaluru’s public spaces have been deliberated and debated about in “those intellectual circles” for a while now. The old nostalgic bangalorean circles are also going through “bangalore angst”. Who is usurping our ideas of spaces, our romantic notions of “bangalore”? notions of the other, notions of those outsiders, notions, notions, notions… While all this happens, …

Post the second theatre jam at Nelamangala, (Nov 2nd 08) we created a new space for performers to be able to share their ideas, thoughts and experiences directly.  Its an interesting space since it will allow personal logging-in and writing what one wants oneself. Passwords and emails will be sent to performers and participants who …

What does it mean to be healthy? In today’s Indian context, our ideas of the “culture of health” are shaped by unique forces that have evolved over a long period of time. To look at the evolution of this paradigm, we need to reach into colonial India & post-independent plus 60 odd years of independence …

Increasingly curious and surprisingly funny, how these things happen. Thoughts, I mean, and the synchronicity with which they occur in spatially disconnected individuals… Perceptions of a system’s current cultural needs…all rising together in the collective. And yet we fail to see it- to understand the power of the collective. The city is seeing a new …

In response to an article written in the Hindu by one Mr. Nagaswami, Dear Mr Nagaswami, Its an interesting advocacy piece for gay rights that you have penned in the Hindu. A point that you raise: social structure will continue to harass and ostracise homosexuals and their "chosen" lifestyles, policy change or not. Two very interesting things …

The City of Gardens (a Center for Film & Drama production) was staged in the city of Bangalore recently and seemed to promise a lot and invite you in. No, not in terms of publicity- I didn’t know about it until I landed at Rangashankara’s café for a meeting. Though I do recount now that someone …