His Padma Shri is fully deserved but comes too late in his life.

Mallika Sarabhai explains the thinking behind an exciting new international collaboration, Theatre from the Streets.

In a world which seeks to put us in silos, vying for space and vilifying for survival, Sunil Kothari was a bridge-builder between people across nations, generations and genres of art, writes dancer-activist Mallika Sarabhai.

"Together we must counter the darkness that envelopes our nation and our soul today, the hatred that is being passed to us as nationalism."

For those of us who have grown up in the Ahmedabad before the collapse of the mills, before the advent of the nouveau riche who now guide or bully the city, Amrita Shah’s lyrical book only reflects the changing tides of the last four decades.