You
are reading this while I am in sunny southern California - SoCal for
short. Presenting an important paper for CORD/SDHS at Pomona College, I
am joined with the empathetic and astute academic Dr. Ketu Katrak of the
University of California, Irvine. Together we have created a template
that documents and shares my journey over the past 22 years in reviving
and restaging the 15th century ritual KAISIKA NATAKAM that is performed
annually at my ancestral village temple in Tirukurungudi, Tamilnadu.
Wherever we have made this presentation - Stockholm, Santiago, Barcelona
and now in Pomona, erudite audiences have watched and listened in rapt
attention. Granted, some find the layered braiding of religion,
performance, festival, celebration and social gathering a tad too
"enthusiastic" for their austere faith beliefs, but it is this very
"quilting" that makes performance traditions so rich and intense in a
society like India.
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