The poetry reading »The Worlds We Create« sets the focus on voices of marginalised communities in India. CeMIS students (Centre for Modern Indian Studies) Senthalir Sivalingam, Paras Kumar, Bharati Chaudhari and Andrea Strube from Deutsches Theater (DT) will recite works of poets in Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, English and German languages. The event is a cooperation between the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Literaturforum Indien e.V. and Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen e.V., funded by Brot für die Welt.

The reading is part of a larger programme. The main aim is to show the lives of marginalised communities in India, whose labour makes the worlds we live in possible. The programme presents the astounding realities of the lives, livelihoods, and labour of the hand-pollinators, manual scavengers, handloom weavers, and the women miners. The workers, all from underprivileged communities live a life of poverty and pain, their back-breaking labour erased from our consciousness and unrecognised in our history books.

An additional photo exhibition will take place on June 16-20, 2025 at the Foyer of the Zentralmensa, Platz der Göttinger Sieben.

This project is part of the initiative work that Senthalir Sivalingam and Paras Kumar, MA students of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, will be doing as scholarship holders of Brot für die Welt.

Admission is free