Before speaking to Poojah, I printed off her CV as posted in the “about our team” section of the Tamasha website. It covered a side and a half of A4 paper. Yes, this woman is a powerhouse of achievements, interests and activities. And it’s all about leadership change and working with organisations whose ethos helps achieve this.
We talked first about Tamasha, whose delightful name is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable and is an Indian word meaning a grand show or performance and, in some contexts, it aptly means a fuss or commotion.
“Tamasha was founded in 1989 by director Kristine Landon-Smith and actor/playwright Sudha Bhuchar with the aim of putting South Asian voices on mid-scale stages”, says Poojah. “Since then, the brief has
