The Job / Naukari
Theatre, Installation, Video, 1997

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She continued to fight for her job while still in custody. Needless to say without success. It was given to one of the countless thousands waiting for any vacancy one who chanced to have between his legs that organ recorded in his birth certificate.
Thereafter she probably sank without trace into the ranks of those millions who are forced to earn their bread by selling themselves wholly or in part to one another , who are in short lost and if we are to believe the prevailing view, lost forever.
- “The Job” by Bertolt Brecht

 
   
   
   
   
   
  1997 Performed at the Experimental Theatre
        Bombay NCPA
1997 National School of Drama New Delhi
 
   
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