Being Karl Marx | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Being Karl Marx | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Dipti Nagpaul |Published: May 9, 2019 12:06:00 am

Being Karl Marx

A documentary theatre piece, Mrs and Marx, attempts to humanise the German philosopher through the prism of his love life

“I believe it is not possible to understand Marx’s writings unless we also understand the context that drove him, and that can happen if we view him as the person he was,” says
Satchit Puranik.

In 2013, Satchit Puranik featured in a play titled Karl Marx in Kalbadevi. The Gujarati piece, directed by Manoj Shah, placed the German philosopher in the midst of the famous, crowded bazaar in old Mumbai, where he’d arrived to clear his name. Although the play was received with mixed reviews, it remained popular with the discerning Gujarati audience. It has also continued to be staged over the years.