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 Nirvanam
a performance by Pritham Chakravarthy
Wednesday,
March 19 - 7 pm
Memorial Union - Play Circle
Nirvanam, a one-woman show, is
a powerful portrayal of the lives of eunuchs. The artist tells
the story of a young boy, who at the age of 15 suddenly discovers
that he enjoys wearing his sister's frock more than his clothes.
Soon he realizes that he is a woman trapped in a man's body.
His family is outraged and he is ostracized by his near and
dear ones. After seeing Chakravarthy's performance Savitha Gautam
writes " it is bold and effective."
Pritham Chakravarthy is an actress,
activist and currently a Fulbright Scholar in residence at UW-Madison.
She has performed Nirvanam in Chicago, Edinburgh, New York and
Virginia, among other places.
 "Anjika
Manipuri Dance and
Martial Arts of Eastern India"
by Anjika Manipuri Dance Troupe
Saturday, April 5
2pm - 4:30 pm
B101
Lathrop Hall
Manipuri
Dance and Martial Arts
2:00pm - 3:00 pm
Manipuri
Martial Arts Workshop
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
The Anjika Manipuri
Dance Troupe is devoted to the performance of Manipuri dance and
martial arts and dance education. Priti Patel, its director and
choreographer, started training at age 12 with the late Guru Bipin
Singh, whose traditional teaching imparted life values along with
dance technique. Ms. Patel has continued this philosophy through
her own school, Anjika, which is also a center for dance therapy
that specializes in helping children with cerebral palsy. Ms.
Patel has performed and lectured at festivals throughout Asia
for nearly 20 years. Her company includes dancers that she has
trained, as well as master drummers and martial arts experts.
This tour was organized by World Music Institute in New York.
www.worldmusicinstitute.org.
This tour is made possible in
part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 "The
Neglected Tradition of
Short Narratives in Urdu"
by
Christina Oesterheld
Monday,
April 7 - Noon
206 Ingraham Hall
Histories of urdu
narrative genres tend to focus mainly on the development of the
novel and the short story, as far as modern forms are concerned,
and on the qissa and dastan tradition. shorter narrative
forms are usually omitted, though anecdotes, jokes, tales etc.
always were and still are part of everyday life. they form an
important part of conversational practice. In written form, however,
today we find them mostly in schoolbooks and chapbooks or in religious
advice literature. It seems that they have been relegated to the
realm of "popular literature". Perhaps this fact is
responsible for the neglect of such forms.
Christina Oesterheld teaches
Urdu at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg.
She has written many articles on 19th-century Urdu literature
and translated contemporary Urdu fiction into German.
 White
Mughals: Love and Betrayal
in Eighteenth-Century India
William
Dalrymple Thursday,
April 17
12:30 - 1:30 pm
University Bookstore - 2nd floor
- 711 State Street
William Dalrymple's
eagerly-anticipated book, White Mughals, is the romantic
and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that
crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and
political boundaries of its time. The story involves secret
assignations, court intrigue, harem politics. religious
disputes and espionage. Dalrymple discovers a world almost
entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre
a compelling tale of love, seduction and betrayal.
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