The South Asia Institute is happy to welcome Dr. Brahma Prakash as Baden-Wuerttemberg-Fellow 2021/22! Dr. Brahma Prakash is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a scholar of South Asian folk culture and performance traditions. His research intersects ritual, performance and festival studies in relation to the questions of marginality, aesthetics and cultural and ecological justice.He is the author of Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India (Oxford University Press, 2019). As a Baden-Württemberg Fellow at the South Asia Institute, Dr. Prakash will be developing his research project on Chhath Festival, tentatively titled as: “Festivals For the Future: Centring Ecology in Heritage Making Discourse in South Asia.” He will be also presenting chapters from his working monograph, Epical Subjects and the Questions of Cultural Justice in India.