ANURUPA

Anurupa is a wonderful woman, extremely active. She is a puppeteer by choice, following her ways of being active rather than the successful path many of her classmates have chosen. She works in many directions, building shows, organizing workshops, empowering through performing arts disadvantaged children, training young puppeteers… Her father had bought a land outside Delhi, when the outskirst of the city were still surrounded by forest. On the land is a small organic farm, growing vegetables and allowing few farmers to produce and sell locally. There Anurupa’s company has moved recently, and a house stands, used as workshop, storing space and residence for local and foreign artists. The rehearsing is made outdoors but they plan to shortly build a straw rehearsing space. It is a live dream for Cécile and Perrine. However, the peaceful green outskirt as become a busy, densely populated and poor suburb in the fastly growing metropole.

We discuss with Anurupa about India, the hints we have seen and she opens us a new vision of India. We get a glimpse that allows us to understand what was behind many images we saw.