The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture Bharucha Rustom
The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture Bharucha Rustom Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India.Focusing on…
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The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture Bharucha Rustom
Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India.Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom Bharucha's timely essay reflects on four interconnected realities that haunted this ongoing crisis--death, grief, mourning, and extinction. What roles do political surveillance, censorship, the regulation of lockdowns, and the sheer indifference to the lives of people play in the containment of civil liberties? How do we cope with multiple deaths and the dislocation of rituals when the act of mourning is either postponed or denied?
Against the destruction of Through vivid examples of photography, theater, dance, visual arts, and the cultures of everyday life, this meditative essay illuminates both the horror of the pandemic as well as its unexpected intimacies and revelations of shared suffering.