Updated On: 25 March, 2014 07:57 AM IST | | Deepa Gahlot
<p>Nobody is naïve enough to believe that theatre (or cinema) can bring about social change, but the performing arts still remains the most potent means to express the need for change</p>


Nobody is naïve enough to believe that theatre (or cinema) can bring about social change, but the performing arts still remains the most potent means to express the need for change. In simpler times, before the cacophony of various audio-visual media overwhelmed the world, the written word was perhaps the strongest mode to get ideas across, but now very few read, and who can take the various rants on the Internet seriously.