Böcker av Ravi Chaturvedi

This collection of essays on democracy in performance is timely. It comes at a time when the very basis of the notion of democracy has been evacuated from its original premise onto the will of the individual by political systems and trans-national enterprises. With these essays, traces are made at the intersection of the global and the local, between modernity and tradition, of performance practices that are affected, troubled, or defined by the pull of competing political discourses. Performances of resistance against global forces, or other hegemonic regimes (in terms of gender, class, or race) are highlighted and analyzed. The contributions emerged from conferences organized by the Indian Society for Theatre Research, and its progenitor (in 2003), the International Federation for Theatre Research. For the local to envision the global is to seek out points of connection on a trans-national basis. The majority of these essays deal with Asian examples of performance. Contents include: Trans-National Theatre and Gender: The Implicit and the Explicit * Jatra and the Marginalization of Mythological Themes * From Staging Gender to "Rehearsing Sex": A Space of Freedom Among Theory and the Dead Meandering to Assist with Resistance * The Irony and Paradox of the Effects of Democratic Governance on the Development of Indic Theatre in South Africa * Characteristics of Korean Traditional Plays * Cultural Hybridity: A Study of the Christian Performance Tradition of Kerala * Performing History of Han in Korean Theatre: Park, Joh-Yeol's Play Toenails of General Oh * Democracy, Social Change and Theatre * Understanding and Misunderstanding Japanese Theatre * The Politics of Reading Folk Theatre Traditions * The Indian Women: Transformation into a Real Self * Performing Dalit: Echoing Multi-Layered Political Undertones in M. Mukundan's Oru Dalit Yuvtiyute Kadana Katha * Stage for Humankind: Contestation of Native Knowledge and Global Knowledge on the Malay Theatre Scene * The Politics of Working Class Racism: Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads - By Roy Williams, Royal National Theatre, London * History in Performance: Cultural Activism in the Plays of Girish Karnad * Puppeting a Joruri: Is it Really Needed to be a Theatre?

I have been handed the new ball and asked to bowl the opening spell in this book of Cricket Commentary and Commentators. It was always my ambition to play Test cricket for India, but I was allergic to grass. A pity because I would have been the silliest mid-on to have played Test cricket. My long leg would have been a sensation. There have never been swingers to match mine. I used to be such an agile fielder that a piece of music 'Third Man Theme' was composed as a tributeOn the serious side, as a commentator, I was always fascinated by how cricket commentary began. While the journey of cricket commentary is fairly well-recorded in Australia and England, the information on the subject in other eight Test playing countries is scanty. This book - Cricket Commentary & Commentators - is a humble attempt to weave together threads scattered in different areas and diverse directions. The scope of the book has been enlarged to include not just commentators but even anchors, presenters, scorers and statisticians while making it a compendium on commentary. With these opening remarks, I urge you, the reader, to move forward.