Kali at Salihara
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Kali expresses the pain of the violence of war for those who experience it—not only for the losers, but for the victors it is also futile.
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THE story begins with a scene depicting Gandhari and Dhestarastra, mother and father of the one hundred Kurawa. They both cannot see. Dhestarastra was blind from birth, and Gandhari bound her eyes which according to Goenawan Mohamad’s version, was not out of empathy for her husband, but rather as a protest to the gods. Husband and wife are distraught. They could not see it, but all of their children had gone to fight at Kurusetra battlefield. T
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