THEATRE "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play by Saksham Arts at Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7:30pm on 5th May 2017

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Time : 7:30 pm Add to Calendar 05/05/2017 19:30 05/05/2017 21:00 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play by Saksham Arts Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/05/theatre-toba-tek-singh-hindi-play-by.html Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 1 hour 30 mins

Entry : by tickets priced at Rs. 200, Available at :
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Offline : At the venue if not sold out

Venue : Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
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'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : Saksham Theatre Group presents "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play 
as part of 'Saksham Theatre Festival 2017'

Saadat Hassan Manto was a short story writer of the Urdu language. He is best known for his short stories, "Bu" (Odour), "Khol Do" (Open It), "Thanda Gosht" (Cold Meat), and his magnum opus, "Toba Tek Singh".


TOBA TEK SINGH has its deep foundation on the tragic event which India and Pakistan faced before, during and after independence in the form of ‘Partition’.


Set in a madhouse it uses madness as a metaphor for sanity, that if you were sane enough you would have not gone ahead for such division that has lasting effects. The concept of Binorism can be seen in this short story. It is the distinction between the two extremes; either here or there, no in between. It is a choice between two politics, religion, race and creed.sone can’t be in two states at A time, just as, in other modes of social distinction, one can’t have two religions or two color skins. Like Bishan singh who achieves ultimate marginality by dying on the border between two states, thus opting for neither. TOBA TEK SING not just questioning just two-nation theory but also the very idea of nationhood as the basis of one’s identity.


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 wires, 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 


Cast & Crew: Harpinder Singh, Harshwardhan Choubay, Rahul Chauhan, Vikramaditya Pandey, Dharmender Sangwan, Vinod Juyal, Prashant Mishra, Ritesh Pandey, Hemant Kumar, Maganveer Singh, Santanu Panda, Yogesh.

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