Written by Surbhi Gupta |New Delhi |Updated: June 17, 2019 8:42:20 am
A new dastangoi production looks at the life and times of Gautam Buddha
While Poonam Girdhani has been performing Dastangoi, a form of storytelling in Urdu, for the last five years, it is for the first time that she has penned a dastan, which has been in the works since October 2018.
The dastan starts with an apology, and a Jataka tale. It’s autumn and Buddha is travelling with his disciple Anand in a jungle, when he picks up a few leaves. “Do I have all the leaves in the forest in my hand?” he asks. It surprises Anand, who says, “What are you saying Tathagat? It’s such a huge jungle and its autumn, how can you have all the leaves in your palm? It is then that Buddha says, ‘Likewise, there many truths lying around, I’m giving you whatever I could grab in my palm.’ In the same vein, dastangos Poonam Girdhani and Rajesh Kumar pick up bits and pieces from Buddha’s life and teachings and present it in the form of Dastan-e-Irfaan-e-Buddh.
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