Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: April 15, 2019 8:41:46 am
A new play explores Gandhian Narayan Desai’s account of being a child at Sabarmati ashram
Over the last year, MK Raina has staged Stay Yet A While and Hatya Ek Aakar Ki on Mahatma Gandhi. Now, he has turned Desai’s memoir into a musical play, Baabla Aur Bapu @ Sabarmati Ashram.
On a chilly January day in Delhi, theatre director MK Raina met his childhood idol Narayan Desai, a famous Gandhian, and performer of Gandhi katha. Raina had grown up reading the Hindi translation of Desai’s book, based on his accounts of being a child at Sabarmati ashram. “I told him, ‘Would you allow me to make a play on it?’ He replied, ‘Where were you all these years? I was waiting for such an opportunity,’” says Raina. Over the last year, Raina has staged Stay Yet A While and Hatya Ek Aakar Ki on Mahatma Gandhi. Now, he has turned Desai’s memoir into a musical play, Baabla Aur Bapu @ Sabarmati Ashram. The play is by Sanskaar Rang Toli, the Theater-in-Education company of National School of Drama in Delhi and designed to travel to schools. It is being staged at Shri Ram Centre in Delhi till April 18.
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