While symposia, seminars, conventions, press conferences, protests, and book releases have been a routine part of Sahmat’s work, “performance” has had a special place. As an open and inclusive “platform”, Sahmat has helped to create and maintain space for plurality of performative traditions which are under severe assault from the right-wing from within, as well as the globalised economic and mono-cultural interests coming from the outside.
Madan Gopal Singh, Vivan Sundaram, Sohail Hashmi and Shubha Mudgal speak about the diversity of performances fostered by Sahmat.
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