Interview: Mallika Sarabhai, author, In Free Fall: My Experiments with Living – “Every human with a heart should speak up for Bilkis”
Hindustan TimesYour book is so chatty and fun that I wanted to read it at one go. People who live in urban India need to understand that tribal dance and music – whether we are talking about Kalbelias, Gonds or Ao Nagas – are not just entertainment. To what extent were you involved in Abhay Pannu’s web series Rocket Boys, which is based on the lives of Dr Homi Bhabha, and your father Dr Vikram Sarabhai? I was drawn to Auroville because I was interested in the idea of an experimental township where people are into solar energy, water conservation, organic farming, slow food, working with hands not just the mind. He developed a theory that many vocal problems were in fact hearing problems, and that people learning a new language could pick it up easily if they had a perceptual understanding of the musicality of that language.
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