IN CONVERSATION WITH: Hunia Chawla

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Hunia Chawla

We sat down with Hunia to discuss her play Permission, A play about patriarchy, protest and the global political order at Tara Theatre. What was the inspiration for ‘Permission’?  The inspiration for Permission comes from the oversimplified way we talk about women’s liberation, especially in the stories we tell about South Asians. There’s a common narrative where the girl from a conservative family is ‘enlightened’ by western values and eventua…