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Try Keeping Up With This Jones ...
She's either Sybil
or a chameleon. How else could a woman be eight people in one play, crossing
continents with accents and emotions, her sole accessory a nondescript
scarf?
With Women Can't Wait-performed at Delhi's
India Habitat Centre last week then on to four other Indian cities-American
actor Sarah Jones, 27, played eight women delivering monologues on gender
discriminatory laws in their countries.
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| KARMA CHAMELEON: (L to R) Jones;
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So she was a mother from Uruguay deriding the
legal provision that absolves a rapist in her country if he agrees to
marry his victim (it's called rape exemption), she was an Indian discussing
marital rape, a Jordanian lambasting honour killings, a Kenyan on female
circumcision ... she was Japanese, Israeli, French, even American.
"Sarah is perfect for us because she's talented
and quite an activist herself," says Ann Syauta of Equality Now,
the global women's group that commissioned the play. Will the real Jones
stand up?
-Anna M.M. Vetticad
Two Men & A Show
They're as different as ...
well, they're different. But painter Ganesh Chougule and sculptor S.D.
Hariprasad are holding a joint exhibition at Chennai's Vinyasa Art Gallery
anyway.
Take Chougule's Mughal style set against geometrically defined grids bound
by painted threads. "Here, the Indian miniature symbolises culture,
the thread symbolises the bond, the shell is staying power," he says.
Now contrast that with Hariprasad's obsession with heads (below). Tails
next?
-Arun Ram
Whatzzat?
It's underground music. Understand? Well, those
who wanted to-and some who do-turned out last week to groove at three
parties in three days at Mumbai hot spots Athena, Karma and Fire 'n' Ice.
On stage were London-based Asian underground groups such as State of Bengal
and Innamost.
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| GET INTO THE GROOVE: Party time at Karma |
Off stage and shaking a leg were singer Leslie
Lewis, veejay Cyrus Broacha and others. Says Sweety Kapoor who has been
promoting the indefinable strains of this genre in India for three years:
"Indians relate to this music at an emotional level even if they
do not strictly understand it." Not this man. Software pro Deval
Sheth was peeved because Fire 'n' Ice wasn't playing "much of underground"
after all. They had "more of European trance", he snorted. Huh?
-Natasha Israni
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