Glimpses of Gods in this Urban Jungle

The wave of modernization that took place in India in the 1960s saw the shutting down of  hundreds of mills around the country. The drive spelt doom for lakhs of mill labourers who found themselves unemployed overnight with large families to take care of.

Modern glass buildings which house international banks and multi-national companies now occupy the compound.

These statues that adorn the parking lot stand testimony of a country eagerly leaping for modernization while still holding on to a past that was and is still beautiful.

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Alternative Initiatives

Alternative Initiatives is a Mumbai-based theatre initiative started by noted film, television and theatre actor, and a published author of short stories Mona Ambegaonkar. 

 The one-day Theatre Workshop was aimed to build awareness of how relationships are built between characters/people and their space.

Mona with the workshop attendees.

D'Lo Live in Mumbai

D'Lo is a queer Tamil Sri Lankan-American, politicial theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and music producer. D'Lo has performed and /or facilitated performance and writing workshops extensively  across the U.S, Canada, U.K, Germany, Sri Lanka and India. He is also the creator of the "Coming Out, Coming Home" writing workshop series which have taken place with South-Asian and/ or Immigrant Queer organisations in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.

D'Lo has been published in various anthologies and academic journals, most recently: Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asian America and Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic (co-edited by Sharon Bridgforth). 

He holds a B.A from UCLA in Ethnomusicology and is a graduate of New York's School of Audio-Engineering (SAE). 

D'Lo performing at St. Andrew's Auditorium, Mumbai.

This year, D'Lo will be working on his latest solo show Minor D'Tales.