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Gandhi, Tagore letters imagined as a play sets stage for theatre festival

Delhi alone will host 89 plays in Hindi and in regional languages, apart from international productions from countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Russia and more

A scene from Bapu, one of the four plays on Gandhi that will be staged at the theatre festival
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A scene from Bapu, one of the four plays on Gandhi that will be staged at the theatre festival

Ritwik Sharma
More than a century ago, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore began an exchange of letters that formed an enlightening debate between two guiding lights of pre-Independence India. The letters, which addressed critical questions facing a nation struggling for independence, were compiled in a book that has been adapted into a play.

Stay Yet a While, directed by theatre actor and director M K Raina, is one of four plays shedding light on Gandhi’s philosophy that will be staged at the Bharat Rang Mahotsav that kicked off in New Delhi on February 1.

As the 20th edition of the international theatre festival organised