Send us a textFor more information, please visit the website of Jai Chakrabarti.SHOW NOTES:2:15 Chakrabarti’s inspiration for A Play For the End of the World3:30 Rabindranath Tagore’s play The Post Office8:00 memoir by survivor of Janusz Korczak’s orphanage titled The Last Korczak Boy8:30 injustices in 1942 Warsaw 10:00 The Post Office performed in 1940s Warsaw to uplift compared with exploitation through its performance in 1970s India 11:15 Chakrabarti’s inspiration from Tagore’s play 12:20 theme of intergeneration trauma in Chakrabarti’s book13:20 Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score and Rabbi Dr. Firestone’s Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma14:30 assumption that gravity of the book would be 1942 Warsaw16:00 research for book17:15 Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland17:40 Lawrence Langer’s collection titled Art From the Ashes18:25 character journaling process19:30 questions asked of characters21:00 reader feedback22:30 value of art in times of conflict as a healing balm23:30 Tagore poem translated into a Yiddish song in 1930s Warsaw24:45 challenges of dual timelines in A Play For the End of the World26:00 thematic repetition edited out27:15 most revised scene during escape from train en route to Treblinka28:30 social justice aspect of A Play For the End of the World29:30 recommendation of collected short stories by Tagore30:00 A Home In The World by Tagore30:30 The Foreign Student by Susan Choi30:50 The Lowland31:40 use of a system in drafting a dual timeline novel32:15 reason for writing story as a novel versus short story33:30 death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu33:40 music of Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela used to end apartheid34:00 each piece of art can allow for conditions by which social change can occur35:40 Playwright Safdar Hashmi whose theatre work in the 1960s and 70s directly advocated for economic and social improvement for the laborers of IndiaPlease share your comments and/or questions at [email protected] by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected]. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

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