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In my body, I sometimes feel at home, sometimes an alien on a strange planet
In a seashell held to the ear
the murmur of a distant ocean…
Radha Chakravarty
Re-writing Tagore: Translation as Performance – Radha Chakravarty
In a dramatic sequence towards the end of Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Natir Puja” (1926; translated into English as “The Dancing Girl’s Worship”), the court dancer Srimati is publicly humiliated, forced to perform before the altar where the Buddha was once worshipped, in violation of her faith in Buddhism. But she subverts the situation, casting off her costume and ornaments as …
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