Free Thinking Essay - Shakespeare & India

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🗓️ 13 November 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Drawing on Shakespeare's plays and Indian translations of them from recent times - and on writing by Saadat Hasan Manto and Rabindranath Tagore, the voices of partition and independence - Preti Taneja from Jesus College Cambridge explores the power of gibberish to upset fixed notions of language and identity. This event was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead on 01.11.14.

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0:00.0	Can I just say?
0:01.5	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:04.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:05.6	So nice.
0:06.5	There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.
0:08.8	Different paces, different heights.
0:10.6	The roof is buckling.
0:11.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:14.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:16.6	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:43.0	Thank you. now. Opa the Gourgur, the annexed
0:45.0	the Bediah, the Mung Didal of the Laltane.
0:48.2	Oppa the Gurgur de Anx de Bediah,
0:50.6	the Mung Didaal of the Vahiguruji da Khalsa and Vahiguriji de Fate. Opa the Gurgur, the annexed de Bediahna, the Mung di Dahl of the Vahi Guruji da Kalsa and Vahigurji de Fati.
0:55.2	Oppa the Gurgur the annexed Bediana, the Mung di Dahl of the Pakistan and India, Dar Fatimun.
1:01.3	Please don't leave the room or retune your radio. There is sense in these strange lines.
1:06.3	They take the three languages I grew up with, English, Hindi and Urdu, and mix them into a gibberish that is
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