Saturday, April 29th 10:00-11:30am EST / 7:30-9:00pm IST

Join Salons for Life for the second virtual salon of In Nature and In Nurture series, "False Dichotomies: What We Can Learn from Karna '' with V. Balakrishnan (aka “Bala”), actor and artistic director of Theatre Nisha. Bala’s work is centered on activating imagination and intuition so that we can live a truly present and liberated human existence. In this virtual interactive theatrical salon, Bala will retell the story of Karna, a warrior from the Indian epic Mahābhārata, through the seven cantos of the epic poem, Rashmirathi, pausing to examine, through interactive theater games, the central question of this year’s salon series: What is it to be In Nature and In Nurture?

“through the relentless passage of time, we have lost our powers of intuitive, instinctive, impulsive behavior and negated imagination and its wonders, leading many to lack self esteem and confidence… and  that theatre and its many forms… free and liberate us to become people in the moment.“ - V. Balakrishnan