Saksham Theatre presents "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi Play at Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg > 7:30pm on 1st & 2nd September 2012

Time : 7:30 pm

Entry : Tickets @ Rs. 100, Rs. 150 available at : 
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Offline : At the Venue before the show

Place : Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001

Landmark : Next to RML Hospital Emergency Gate 5

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Parking : Ram Manohar Lohia ( RML ) Hospital public parking or Inside Akshara Theatre

Event Details : Saksham Theatre presents 'Toba Tek Singh' Hindi Play. As part of Saksham Theatre Festival 2012 (1st Sept to 7th Oct 2012)
The story is set two or three years after the 1947 Partition, when the governments of
India and Pakistan decided to exchange their Muslim, Sikh and Hindu , and revolves
around Bishan Singh, a Sikh inmate of an asylum in Lahore, who is from the town of
Toba Tek Singh. As part of the exchange of Bishan Singh is sent under police escort
to India, but upon being told that his hometown Toba Tek Singh is in Pakistan, he
refuses to go. The story ends with Bishan lying down between barbed wire: "There,
behind barbed wire, was Hindustan. Here, behind the same kind of barbed wire, was
Pakistan. In between, on that piece of ground that had no name, lay Toba Tek Singh.”

Writer : Saadat Hasan Manto

Hindi Adaptation : Vidhya Shankar

Design & Direction : Sunil Rawat

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