Centre Stage: Gender, Politics and Performance in South Asia

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This unique collection of writings brings together, for the first time, accounts, analyses and anecdotes by artists, writers and maverick performers from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, that explore the history of innovation and protest, and present a subcontinental narrative of aesthetic experimentation, political engagement and progressive social change.

Asif Farrukhi

Asif Farrukhi is an author, critic and translator, known for his short stories and essays, seven anthologies of short fiction, and two collections of critical essays. He is the editor of Duniyazad, a literary journal in Urdu of new writing and contemporary issues.

Kamran Asdar Ali

Kamran Asdar Ali is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted ethnographic research in Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan, and is the author of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (2002); and of Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947-72 (2015).

Sheema Kermani

Sheema Kermani is a classical dancer, teacher, theatre practitioner, choreographer and women’s rights activist. She is founder and head of Tehrik-e-Niswan Cultural Action Group dedicated to improving women’s rights in Pakistan by raising awareness through the use of dance, performing arts and cultural activity. She is the author of several articles on culture and has received many national and international awards.