Lions and Tigers

Text of the day: “Writers’ Building in Calcutta is where the English clerks all sit, writing their tax demands that impoverish our people and where they legitimatise their strangle hold over us through their evil blood-sucking laws. Before the British Crown, it was the head quarters of the East India Company. It has a long and repellant history.” (Bimala in Tanika Gupta’s Lions and Tigers)

Empire imperialism India Indian Independence Lions and Tigers political theatre Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare's Globe Tanika Gupta terrorism