"Toba Tek Singh" hindi play as part of Saksham Theatre Festival 2015 at Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg > 6:30pm on 14th November 2015

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 14/11/2015 18:30 14/11/2015 20:00 Asia/Kolkata "Toba Tek Singh" hindi play as part of Saksham Theatre Festival 2015 Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/11/toba-tek-singh-hindi-play-as-part-of.html Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 90 min.

Entry : by Tickets priced at Rs. 300, Rs. 200, 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 Description : 'Toba Tek Singh' hindi play as part of Saksham Theatre Festival 2015. 
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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