What if Bhagat Singh were to come alive today? How would the revolutionary be received in his birthplace in what is now Faisalabad in Pakistan? Would anyone recognise him in a country that has virtually no official memory of him?
On Saturday in Islamabad, on the eve of Pakistan’s independence day anniversary, a former teacher-turned-performing artiste and a journalist presented a collaboration that seeks answers to these questions through a play and a documentary, together titled Indelible — Bhagat Singh.
It was an unusual event by standards of independence day celebrations in the subcontinent, which never include references to the “other”, even if it was privately organised. The show, performed before more than 500 people, also has a sequence with Mahatma Gandhi in it.
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