Root Map is an outcome of an adda at a south Calcutta coffee shop. The idea of a collaborative theatrical piece based on border studies came to the trio of Debra A. Castillo, a professor of comparative literature at Cornell University, and Jadavpur University research scholar Debaroti Chakraborty, and filmmaker and theatre director Debasish Sen Sharma. “Border studies is an area of research for me. Hence, this crazy idea and we said, let’s do it!” said Debra. Full story
