{"id":1661,"date":"2015-12-05T19:41:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T03:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?page_id=1661"},"modified":"2015-12-11T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T07:05:21","slug":"dooja-passa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?page_id=1661","title":{"rendered":"Dooja Passa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Dooja<\/i><\/a>Dooja Passa<\/i><\/strong> (The Other Side) is a collection of three one act plays:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dooja Paasa
\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong>One Girl One Dream
\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong>Visa\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

All of these plays have been <\/span>performed in Vancouver and in Punjab. Dooja Paasa<\/em> is the first published book of Canadian Punjabi plays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dooja Paasa\u00a0<\/em> deals with racism in Canadian society. A Sikh man after having been attacked by a racist gang in his neighbourhood can’t decide whether to keep his turban or not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“The top name in Canadian Punjabi playwrights is that of Ajmer Rode who wrote the first Canadian Punjabi play, Dooja Paasa, and made a significant advance in the Canadian Punjabi literature.” Dr. S.P. Singh <\/strong>(critic, vice chancelor, Punjabi University.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0“Techniques of stage presentations show that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ajmer Rode is a dramatist with deep understanding\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>and grasp of theatrics. Dooja Passa is a solid\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>contribution to Punjabi drama.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>–Dr. Mohanjit<\/strong>, Kaumi Ekta, 1981.
\n“This is an exemplary play due to its theme, tight structure, and natural dialogue” \u2013 Dr. Mohanjit<\/span><\/strong>, poet & critic, in Tribune, 1981)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“In the field of drama, only Ajmer Rode’s Dooja Paasa<\/em> and Ajmer Aulakh’s, Bigane Bohar Di chhan<\/em>, deserve main discussion.” \u2013 Dr. Mohanjit <\/span><\/strong>(critic, poet) in the literary face of 1981<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dooja Passa 1st Performance<\/span><\/p>\n

Directed by Ajmer Rode<\/p>\n

Produced by Punjabi Literary Association, Vancouver, 1977<\/p>\n

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A scene from Dooja Passa<\/strong>: Darshan Bains, Paul Binning, Karmjit Ghuman, Indresh, Bhavkhandan<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Cast<\/a>

Cast of Dooja Passa<\/strong>: (from left) Indresh, Darshan Bains, Surjeet Kalsey, Paul Binning, Ajmer Rode, Karamjit Ghuman, Raghbir Mand, Bhavkhandan\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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A scene from Dooja Passa was highlighted on the cover of Watan<\/em>, a literary monthly published from Vancouver.<\/p>\n

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Raghbir Mand and Karamjit Ghuman in Dooja Passa<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Dooja Passa (The Other Side) is a collection of three one act plays:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dooja Paasa One Girl One Dream Visa\u00a0 All of these plays have been performed in Vancouver and in Punjab. Dooja Paasa is the first published book of Canadian Punjabi plays.\u00a0 Dooja Paasa\u00a0 deals with racism in Canadian society. A Sikh man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1661","page","type-page","status-publish","h-entry","hentry","h-as-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1661\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}