{"id":1052,"date":"2003-04-24T02:58:20","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T08:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:03:36","slug":"the-servants-shirt-nankar-ki-kameez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/04\/24\/the-servants-shirt-nankar-ki-kameez\/","title":{"rendered":"The Servant\u2019s Shirt (Nankar Ki Kameez)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, April 24, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/servants-shirt-4-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2359 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/servants-shirt-4-24.jpg\" alt=\"servants-shirt-4-24\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Mani Kaul in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Artist-in-Residence Mani Kaul\u2019s third program in our spring <em>Conversations at the Edge<\/em> series is his deeply compassionate exploration of social issues confronting ordinary Indians, <em>The Servant\u2019s Shirt<\/em>.\u00a0 In a small Indian town in the early 1960\u2019s, a young, lower caste couple \u2013 Santu and his wife Bahu \u2013 struggle with a leaking roof and occupational challenges and frustration.\u00a0 Through an experimental narrative form, the film touches on sickness, social intercourse, poverty and class struggle as Kaul successfully portrays the claustrophobic and rigid hierarchical structure that dominates the small town in which the protagonists live.\u00a0 <em>The Servant\u2019s Shirt<\/em> is an affecting study on the idea of creativity and individual freedom, an ongoing theme in Kaul\u2019s work. 1999, Mani Kaul, India, 104 min, 35mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 24, 2003, 8pm Mani Kaul in person! Artist-in-Residence Mani Kaul\u2019s third program in our spring Conversations at the Edge series is his deeply compassionate exploration of social issues confronting ordinary Indians, The Servant\u2019s Shirt.\u00a0 In a small Indian town in the early 1960\u2019s, a young, lower caste couple \u2013 Santu and his wife [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/04\/24\/the-servants-shirt-nankar-ki-kameez\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from The Servant\u2019s Shirt (Nankar Ki Kameez)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83,476],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-asia","tag-political"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10102,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/10102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}