Something Like Truth: An Anthem of Resistance
There are some shadow lines that define the tenets we have lived by - truth, justice, and freedom.
In Something Like Truth, the voices of the four protagonists across time-spans and geographies, call out prejudice and inequity. The narrative is stark, using powerful yet sparse imagery - the single chair bathed in a glare of white light – is it an anchor or just a prop? Leave it to your imagination!
Each character speaks out with passion, honesty, and above all, a wistful yearning to “live in dignity” in an unheeding world. “Who are we after all?” - is the aching refrain for their lack of independence and the sheer nakedness of their destiny.
In 19th -century France, an inconsequential charwoman unwittingly exposes a traitor to the French Nation; the innocent wife, steadfast and loyal, watches her life spill away under her husband’s alleged dishonour.
“These bars imprison me, but they also keep the world out” - the fraught daughter of the doomed owner of the Famous Bakery Massacre of Gujarat in 2002 suffers the consequences of truth.
In Sri Lanka’s civil war the quashing of voices that spoke truth to power, yield to a fevered lament for the principles of youthful idealism that was smashed in an unyielding world.
Each protagonist and each story speaks a universal language of conflict and struggle to find equivalence and amity in a fractured realm. Their sentiments stem from a space of vulnerability and taut outrage, unable to find succour or recourse in a shared anthem of resistance.
The starkness of light and shadows – the quiver in the leg; the hands that do not come clean; the voices that quaver - tell us that we’ll only aspire to Something like Truth - that is never the truth at all!
Sunday, 22 March 2026
6:00 PM
Shri Ram Centre Auditorium, New Delhi
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