HAIDER, TOMORROW Tomorrow, we are taking an afternoon off to see Haider at a Melbourne theatre. I respect Basharat Peer, the script writer, and have often said that true reconciliation between Pandits and Muslims in Kashmir will happen when the latter have a sense of empathy with Rahul Panditas narrative and the latter with Peers and Mirza Waheeds story. Only when we can put ourselves in each others shoes can we pave the way for forgiveness and a new future, But what should I expect tomorrow? A Kurosowas Rashoman, where there is no one truth? Is the Kashmiri Hamlet as indecisive as the Prince of Denmark? Here are my favourite lines from the original: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” Words, words, words.” And, of course, the most appropriate: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:37:45 +0000
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