Chaicopy Yours Truly Issue Vol. 3 March 2019

with her revolves around how the craft of film functions as a mode of expressing one’s identity. In January this year, renowned theatre practitioners Sunil Shanbag and Sapan Saran visited MCH under the TMA Pai Chair in Indian Literature. They conducted a one-day acting workshop and also staged their critically acclaimed play Words Have Been Uttered. During this time, Mr. Shanbag spoke to Nidhi Panicker and Sania Lekshmi about his experience as a theatre artist and his thoughts on the medium of performance.

In the same month, poet Siddhartha Menon visited our campus and conducted several informal sessions on how to engage with poetry. His former student, Laya Kumar, interviewed him on how he navigates the crossroads of poetry and pedagogy.

Our issues are usually released by the artists and scholars who visit MCH. However, this time, we have chosen to unveil the new issue at a Lawn Mushaira, a well-loved MCH tradition where students and faculty come together to share poetry and prose, both their own and by others. This intimate gathering, wherein readers and listeners establish dialogue with each other, seemed like the perfect space for sharing this issue. We are endlessly grateful for the encouraging and creative academic space that Manipal Center for Humanities provides us with. We would especially like to thank Dr. Gayathri Prabhu for her ceaseless support and her invaluable insights in this endeavor. We would also like to thank Dr. Nikhil Govind for providing Chaicopy with a platform for growth.

This will be our last tenure as Editors-in-Chief, and is also the last time our batch-mates serve on the Editorial Board. It was a privilege to receive this opportunity and we hope we have done it justice. We look forward to seeing Chaicopy thrive in the future.

With warmth, Tanushree Baijal and Tanvi Deshmukh | Manipal, 2019