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The making of the other
Updated On: 25 September, 2019 07:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Snigdha Hasan
Through the metaphor of magic, a new play lays bare the process of othering, where asking questions is sacrilege

Whether it was the Holocaust — remnants of which scattered across concentration camps-turned-museums still shake your belief in humanity — or the everyday resistance that inter-faith marriages are met with, the othering of those unlike oneself is a process that has repeated itself perilously in the course of history. Asmit Pathare breaks it down simply when he says, "To make a line drawn on a sheet of paper appear shorter, you draw a longer one next to it. To validate ourselves, we invalidate someone. To love being Indians, we love to hate Pakistan." Us & Them is his new play, and the world of blatant binaries that we have come to inhabit is what the playwright-director has been grappling with for the last one year.

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