Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World (Routledge, 1993), The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice (Oxford University Press/Wesleyan, 2000), and Rajasthan: An Oral History (Penguin, 2003). His latest book, Another Asia (Oxford University Press, 2006), is an inter-Asian study of Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin, within the larger contexts of nationalism, pan-Asianism, and cosmopolitanism. The Community Art Lab supports Rustom’s work as an independent scholar, which includes occasional theorizing and critically commenting on our own projects, or reporting on events such as the recent Prison Theatre Conference in Durban, South Africa (March 2008). You can expect to read his contributions on this site several times per year.
Related Links
Recent interview in Performance Paradigm (February, 2007)
What kind of community art research do we need?
Between Past and Future: Re-imagining ‘our times’ in theatre today
