# Rustom Bharucha > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rustom_Bharucha > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rustom_Bharucha.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustom_Bharucha > Source revision: 1279537336 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Indian academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Rustom Bharucha | image = | birth_date = 1953 | birth_place = [Bombay](/source/Bombay) (Mumbai) | death_date = | discipline = Theater and Performance Studies. Cultural Studies | workplaces = | alma_mater = | doctoral degree supervisor = | doctoral students = | known_for = Studies of inter-culturalism, secularism, oral history and decoloniality | influences = | influenced = | prices = | footnotes = | image_name = Rustom Bharucha - image 5.jpg }} '''Rustom Bharucha''' (born 1953 in [Bombay](/source/Bombay)) is a writer, director and dramaturg based in [Kolkata](/source/Kolkata), India. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the [British Academy](/source/British_Academy) and a retired Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies which he taught in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at [Jawaharlal Nehru University](/source/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University), [New Delhi](/source/New_Delhi), India, between 2012 and 2018. ==Training and Work == Trained as a dramaturg at the [Yale School of Drama](/source/Yale_School_of_Drama) between 1977 and 1980, Bharucha received his doctorate from Yale, in Dramatic Criticism, in 1981. Over the years, he has published a number of books including ''Theatre and the World'' (1993), ''The Question of Faith'' (1993), ''Chandralekha: Woman/Dance/Resistance'' (1995), ''In the Name of the Secular'' (1999), ''The Politics of Cultural Practice'' (2000), ''Rajasthan: An Oral History'' (2003), ''Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin'' (2006) and ''Terror and Performance'' (2014). His publication, ''Terror and Performance'', was researched while he was a Fellow at [https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/interweaving-performance-cultures/index.html The International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures”] in [Berlin](/source/Berlin), Germany, between 2010 and 2012.  More recently, he has published ''Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments'' (2021), co-edited with Paula Richman, and ''The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic through Photography, Performance and Public Culture'' (2022). During the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, he produced a 9-episode video-lecture on ''Theatre and the Coronavirus''.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-13 |title=Theatre and the Coronavirus - Online Projects |url=https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/interweaving-performance-cultures/online-projects/index.html |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de |language=en}} A leading [interlocutor](/source/Interlocutor_(linguistics)) in the area of intercultural performance, both at theoretical and practical levels, he has also attempted to redefine the relationship between culture and development through a number of workshops with marginalized communities in India, the Philippines, Brazil and South Africa on issues relating to land and memory, the politics of touch, re-enactments of history, and social transformation. A former advisor of the [Prince Claus Fund](/source/Prince_Claus_Fund) for Culture and Development in the Netherlands, he has served as a consultant for the Arts Council in Ireland on cultural diversity in the arts, in 2008, as well as for [Ford Foundation](/source/Ford_Foundation) on its interdisciplinary and multicultural Artography project, in the United States, in 2007. Between 2007 and 2009, he has also worked as the Project Director of {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090312064521/http://www.arnajharna.org/ Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan]}}, which is devoted to the study of traditional knowledge systems, and as the Festival Director of the ''Ramayana Festival'' at the [https://adishaktitheatrearts.com/ Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Research] in [Puducherry](/source/Puducherry_(union_territory)), India, between 2010 and 2011. == Bibliography == * ''Rehearsals of Revolution: The Political Theater of Bengal''. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. Paperback Ed. by Seagull Books.1983. {{ISBN|978-0824808457}} * ''Theatre of Kanhailal. 'Pebet' and 'Memoirs of Africa' ''. Seagull Books. Calcutta. 1990. Reprinted in 1998. {{ISBN|978-8170460947}} * ''Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture''. Manohar Publishers. New Delhi.1990. Reprinted by Routledge. London. 1993. {{ISBN|978-0415092166}} * ''The Question of Faith (Tracts for the Times)''. Ed. by S. Gopal and Romila Thapar. Orient Longman. New Delhi. 1993. {{ISBN|978-0863113925}} * ''Chandralekha: Woman/Dance/Resistance'''''.''' Harper Collins, New Delhi. 1995, Paperback Ed. 1997. {{ISBN|978-8172232542}} * ''In the Name of the Secular: Contemporary Cultural Activism in India''. Oxford University Press. New Delhi. 1998. Paperback Ed. 1999. {{ISBN|978-0195648898}} * ''The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization''. Wesleyan University Press. 2000. Oxford University Press. 2001. Paperback Ed. 2003. {{ISBN|978-0819564245}} * ''Rajasthan—An Oral History: Conversations with [Komal Kothari](/source/Komal_Kothari)''. Penguin Books. New Delhi. 2003. {{ISBN|978-0143029595}} * ''Another Asia: [Rabindranath Tagore](/source/Rabindranath_Tagore) and [Okakura Tenshin](/source/Okakura_Kakuz%C5%8D)''. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. 2006. {{ISBN|978-0195682854}} * ''Terror and Performance''. Routledge, London and New York, 2014. Co-published by Tulika Books. New Delhi, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1138014275}} * ''Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments. C''o-Ed. with Paula Richman. Oxford University Press, New York. 2021. {{ISBN|978-0197552506}} * ''The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic through Photography, Performance and Public Culture.'' Seagull Books. Kolkata. Distributed by The University of Chicago Press. 2022. {{ISBN|978-1803090757}} == References == {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bharucha, Rustom}} Category:Parsi people Category:Living people Category:1953 births Category:Indian writers Category:Theatre theorists Category:Academics from Kolkata --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rustom Bharucha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustom_Bharucha) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustom_Bharucha?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.