Key Highlights
- Two theatre makers Senjuti Mukherjee and Dana Roy read out short readings from Five Plays and Hajar Churashir Ma (Mother of [prisoner number] 1084), both translated by Samik Bandopadhyay into English.
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- Mukherjee read out a portion from Hajar Churashir Ma in Bengali.
- Addressing the audience, International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq (Heart Lamp) said Kolkata is a “city of words” and pointed out that it has used words to question Empire, shape movements, reimagine society and offer shelter to wounded imaginations.
- Stressing on the power of reading, she said in a world increasingly governed by speed, spectacle and sound bytes, reading teaches slowness, patience, and nurtures doubt and wisdom.
