L. SOMI ROY ON:


LITERATURE

- ON THE TRANSLATION
Introduction to Crimson Rainclouds (Thema Books, 2012)
Whatever people in other lands might say, as far as we are concerned, no Manipuri dialogue has been written that is more beautiful than this, “ Eigya Syam said. It was, no doubt, a gentle word of caution... Read More

 

FILM

- FROM SOUTHWEST CHINA TO APPALACHIA
Introducing regional Filmmakers from Yunnan and Sichuan to the Appalshop Media Collective.
The close-up of the lined face of seventy-year-old Xiao Shuming, or the dewy, rosiness of the much younger Qiong Zhou, looked like it could have been straight out of a work by one of China's acclaimed Fifth Generation filmmakers... Read More

- FROM KENTUCKY TO KUNMING
An Appalachia-Southwest China Filmmakers’ Exchange.
In March 2003, as we began screening documentaries by filmmakers from rural Kentucky to audiences in southwest China, American missiles began raining down on Baghdad; ... Read More

- MANI KAUL AT FLAHERTY
I see Mani Kaul across the room. It is the hospitality lounge of the 40th Flaherty Film Seminar held at Wells College in Aurora, upstate New York. ...Read More

- FROM INDIA TO AMERICA: NEW DIRECTIONS IN INDIAN-AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEO
Exhibition Catalogue Essay, the Whitney Museum of American Art 1996
From India To America: New Directions In Indian-American Film And Video” is the first exhibition of independent films and videos made by Indian Americans as a body of work expressive of contemporary American culture ... Read More

 

THEATRE

- A WINDOW ON THE WORLD: A REMOTE CORNER OF ASIA PUTS ON A PLAY ABOUT 9/11
Five weeks after 9/11, the Sana Macha Nachom Artistes Group of Imphal premiered a two-hour-long sumang leela performance called World Trade Centre (2001).... Read More

 

MANIPUR PONY

- A PRESERVE IN PROGRESS: A PERSONAL JOURNEY
I first heard of Samadon Ayangba from Pundit Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra. That Pabung Khelchandra, then in his eighties, looked a bit like a better-humored Yoda with his lined face, wispy hair and large ears seemed appropriate for this great scholar ... Read More

 

BASEBALL

- AN AMERICAN PITCH TO MANIPUR
Looks like you've brought a bit of India already," a gentleman said gamely, loosening his tie. Bright, hot sunlight filtered through the trees of Central Park and streamed into the elegant Fifth Avenue drawing rooms of Mrs. Elizabeth Brockman ... Read More