Pamuk’s complex world

In “Main Istanbul Hoon”, veteran director and playwright Mohan Maharishi tries to capture the fictional universe of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty Wedded to theatre: Veteran theatre person Mohan Maharishi in New Delhi. Mohan Maharishi’s latest production of “Main Istanbul Hoon” is based on the life and works of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist and intellectual. For the last one year Maharishi has been engrossed in the fictional worl d of Pamuk — a world tormented by politics, ethnic intolerance and religious violence. Maharishi has been specially fascinated by Istanbul, a city where Pamuk was raised and has been writing novels for 30 years. In “Main Istanbul Hoon” Maharishi tries to capture the fictional universe of Pamuk — haunted by ruthless killers, fundamentalists and political... [read full story]