Kashmir Project

BACKGROUND:
It was created as a result of interactive trauma therapy workshops with masks and puppets with women in Kashmir. The production uses masks, poetry, photographs and puppets to look at present day Kashmir. This project has been funded by WISCOMP as a part of the WISCOMP Fellowship of Peace (2005).

SYNOPSIS:
The Kashmir Project traces the journey of the 14th Century Kashmiri sufi poetess Lal-Ded re-born in the Kashmir of today and retracing her steps through the landscape of Kashmir. But this time she hears blasts, meets army men and militants, hears the voices of women who are mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Kashmir living in a war zone for the last fifteen years, sees their recurring nightmares and then finds again what she had learnt 600 years ago, hope, tolerance and love, which saved her and saves the women of the valley today.

PERFORMED AT:
WISCOMP Peace Symposium in 2005, WISCOMP round table conference of Kashmiri Women writers, journalists and activists and war widows. Also at Lady Shri Ram college.

AVAILABILITY:
IN DELHI AND ON TOUR