Rustom Bharucha

Rustom Bharucha (born 1953 in Calcutta) is an independent Indian non-fiction writer, director and cultural critic. He is currently Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Born to a Parsi family in Calcutta.[1] Bharucha was formerly a theatre director, and whilst he still works as a director, he is now better known for his writing. Among Bharucha's most highly regarded books are Theater and the World , The Question of Faith , In the Name of the Secular , The Politics of Cultural Practice and Rajasthan: An Oral History , in which he interviews the Indian folklorist Komal Kothari. His inter-Asian study of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) and the Japanese painter Okakura Kakuzō (1862–1913). In this work, he places the pan-Asian in a cosmopolitan context.