The Two Panels

When I was first reading Xaf's post, I thought the writer was Patrick. Interesting and curious that you two seem to line up here. I cannot agree with you that the main difference was plot.

For me the difference was more stark. When Kiran and Patrick revealed their "anti-politics," the audience picked that up as the main note for response. As a result the discussion headed towards the politics of our project. An interesting place for it to go.

The second panel produced more of a "raw" confessional -- especially from the brilliant and breakthrough performances we got from Naren and Jacob. The audience responded in kind.

Because they did so we had a series of confessions or plots. That allowed a pattern to emerge. Hima and Naren jumped on that pattern. The agent/structure dichotomy nicely mapped onto the white/brown difference. That is what I saw.

I think its a good idea for us to have an explanatory statement. Kiran, perhaps you could give us the assignment. Perhaps each of us could do one. Or, one of us could start the draft and we could each work on it.

Indeed, negotiating such statement might be a good way to bring out the tofu in this blog and the project.