मी लिहितो | I Write

A blog about Culture, Creative Writing and Theatre

My blog मी लिहितो | I Write is a space where I share my ongoing conversations with culture, literature, theatre, and everyday life. These entries gather my reflections on the questions that shape my creative and scholarly practice, whether they emerge from dramaturgy, performance, memory, translation, or the small yet resonant moments that unfold in daily life and art.

My thoughts grow out of the worlds I inhabit as a writer, teacher, and researcher, and they follow the quiet movements of ideas that arise in rehearsal rooms, classrooms, archives, and during my wanderings across cities. Writing here helps me stay attentive to the ways stories travel and transform. It reminds me that creative and research practices are a way of seeing the world anew and imagining the possibilities that lie just beyond the visible.

The Dense Emptiness of an Empty Stage

A few weeks ago, I sat down to write the first piece of a new column for Daily Sakal, one of Maharashtra's oldest and most-read newspapers. The column is called Avakash Ghana Pokal (अवकाश घन पोकळ), a phrase I borrowed from the 17th-century Marathi sant-poet Ramdas. It translates, roughly, to "the dense emptiness of space," a hollow that is somehow full, a silence that hums with potential. I chose that phrase because I think it describes theatre perfectly. And theatre, in all

Ashutosh Potdar

Mar 20

Across Continents, Across Stages

A reflection on a year-long international collaboration between playwrights and scholars Ashutosh Potdar and Kari Barclay, exploring dramaturgy, globalisation, translation, intercultural performance, and new creative work across India and the United States.

Ashutosh Potdar

Nov 21, 2025