‘On the street’ panelists, Habib and Linda, as Truth and Treason coverage continues…

My uncle saw the Truth and Treason blog and he said ‘I’ve seen that you were looking for Iraqis, I’ve got a friend who has some stories about Saddam’, and we met. Someone else told me ‘ my girlfriend is from Iran and she experienced war, are you interested in meeting with her, maybe she’d like to talk about it’.

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Forgive or welcome the ‘on the street’ look of it. Here they are, natural:

And also, I did not tell you yet, but Truth and Treason is a tribute to Habib Tanvir, a mentor of Rahul.

This past June, Rahul wrote in his tribute to Habib:

‘ Through his life, he always responded to events around him, both through work and in an activist mode by taking part in marches, protests, and rallies. He remained an uncompromising enemy of parochialism, sectarianism, communalism and all other narrow-minded ideologies.

He loved children and had special fondness for our daughter Aliya who called him baba ji.

He was wonderfully warm, affectionate and a voracious reader. He was very curious about the world, what people were doing, the new productions, etc. He could not stop himself from living life to the fullest. Right till the end he was active and always making new plans.

In my last meeting, he told me that if health permitted, he would like to direct Truth and Treason in Canada. We didn’t get that opportunity, but we dedicate Truth and Treason to him. We celebrate his life with more meaningful theatres…’

I feel really touched by this text and inspired by Habib’s life. I wish I knew more of those people while they were still alive. I think they make us move forward.

Finally and on a lighter note, here is the video I said I’d post last week ‘when you make a lot of money, you spend a lot of money!’ enjoy!