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Rustom Bharucha

Indian academic

Rustom Bharucha

Born1953

Bombay (Mumbai)

Known forStudies of inter-culturalism, secularism, oral history and decoloniality
DisciplineTheater and Performance Studies.

Cultural Studies

Rustom Bharucha (born 1953 in Bombay) is a writer, director and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India.

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He is a Corresponding Fellow of the 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, New Delhi, India, between 2012 and 2018.

Training and Work

Trained as a dramaturg at the 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 o Encountering the Other, Accosting the Self | Poetics, Plays ...

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