do you think c s ambai through her play ,crossing the river, voices rsistance
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Ambai’s ‘Crossing the River’ (Hindi/45mins) is revived after ten years by well-known theatre director K.S. Rajendran’s Natyadharmi theatre group.
The play interrogates the idea of a woman, as constructed, shaped and imposed by social and cultural forces. Through the metaphor of Sita, who is banished to the forests by Ram, the play embarks upon a series of uncomfortable questions at patriarchy. Different characters from our cultural and mythological memory resurface blurring who Sita is… Locating a ‘Sita’ in all individuals who refuse to confirm. A transformative text coming back to life after a decade!
About the writer of the play:
Ambai (CS Lakshmi) a creative writer in Tamil and a historian. She has been an independent researcher in Women’s Studies for the last thirty-five years. Her stories have been translated in two volumes entitled A Purple Sea and In a Forest, A Deer. The latter shared the Hutch-Crossword award for translated fiction. Her most recent work is a detective fiction As the Day Darkens. She received the Pudumaipiththan memorial lifetime achievement award in 2005, the Lifetime Literary Achievement Award of Tamil Literary Garden, University of Toronto, Canada, for the year 2008, and the Kalaignyar Mu. KarunanidhiPorkizi award for fiction in 2011. The University of Madras awarded her for excellence in literature in the centenary celebrations of the International Women’s Day in March 2011. She is currently the Director of SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women). She commissioned two translated volumes in Tamil of 12 booklets on women from various walks of life, published by SPARROW. She is also the series Editor of five volumes of translations of 87 writers from 23 languages of India. She lives in Mumbai with her filmmaker friend Vishnu Mathur, her seventeen year old foster daughter Khintu and her two little brothers Krishna and Sonu.
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