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Playwright: Bhuvneshvar Prasad
Director and Dramaturge: Avijit Solanki
Group: N.S.D. Diploma Production, New Delhi
Language: Hindustani
Duration: 1 hr
The Play
When Bhuvneshwar Prasad’s story ‘Bhediye’ was first published it created quite a stir in literary circles of 1933 India.The story begins by asking what is a bhediya? (a wolf). Kharu says there’s none other as dangerous as them, appearing in packs, nothing satiates their hunger. Kharu recites a story in which he, his father and three Nataniyas were traversing from Gwalior to Punjab when they were attacked by a hungry pack of bhediyas. Chasing and compelling him to abandon all his belongings/possessions behind. Running to save his life he loses his father. It story ends after Kharu spits and tells that the very next year he killed a pack of sixty bhediye!
Director’s Note
Bhediye is a narrative of a progressing violent swarm, being run over by it, and losing all one has to it. A new light of meaning emanates from this story every single time I read it. Its approach to language, structure and characterizations are cold and brutal. Like a hammer thumping onto a nail penetrating your bleeding soul. It has an odor of fear and terror – a topical subject to reflect upon as our country’s cri
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(This tribute to Comrade Srilata by Kumudini Pati first appeared in Mainstream.)
SRILATA Swaminathan was not only a comrade, with whom I worked for almost ten long years in the women’s movement led by AIPWA; she was a dear friend,with whom I could discuss literature, art, folk music, food, cultures and even Yoga, Ayurveda and Vipassana. She came from an illustrious family of Madras, and had joined the ML movementthrough her interaction with the working class, for whom she was doing plays, while in Delhi. Srilata was the daughter of the famous lawyer and Advocate General of Tamil Nadu, S. Govind Swaminathan and the granddaughter of Veteran Member of Parliament Ammu Swaminathan. She was the niece of Captain Laxmi Sehgal of the legendary Azad Hind Fauj founded by Subhash Chandra Bose. Her other paternal aunt was Mrinalini Sarabhai, the versatile dancer and choreographer, who had founded the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts. Srilata had imbibed much of the creativity and versatility of her ancestors, and, of course, her political moorings had been indirectly shaped by ‘Ammu Dadi’ and ‘Laxmi Bua’. She was one of the most interesting and lively women I have seen in the ML movement. She was a personality who could attract people cutting across gender and class lines wit
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