{"id":2374,"date":"2016-03-11T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?page_id=2374"},"modified":"2016-03-11T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:43:56","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?page_id=2374","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brief history<\/span><\/p>\n

\"India,1966\"<\/a>

India,1966<\/p><\/div>\n

My first involvement in theater goes back to 1956-57 when we formed Young Farmers Club at our village, Rode in Punjab. Then a\u00a0grade 11 student, I and\u00a0brother Navtej Bharati along with other boys of the village got together to organize some cultural activities in the village. We were inspired by the then Peace Movement in which our maternal uncle Sadhu Singh Talib\u00a0was much involved along\u00a0with his team; they staged peace plays in the villages of the area. Navtej acted, in some of these plays, as a young girl whose brother was killed in war. I just helped the actors with\u00a0water or tea.<\/span>
\n The first play we jointly designed and wrote was “Chacha Sharha kyon Riha (Why the Uncle Remained a Bachelor) -It was because the uncle lost his leg in\u00a0war.<\/span>
\n This play along with some other short plays were staged very successfully in the village school for girls. The village elders who were not used to stage plays in those days mounted a stiff opposition. Only after seeing the plays they relaxed, were very pleased and even offered rewards to the team.<\/span>
\n After that I wrote and directed\u00a0two one act plays in Hindi when I was a lecturer at a polytechnic college in Jajhar,\u00a0Punjab (1963).\u00a0After migrating to Canada in 1966 I wrote my first play Dooja Paasa (The Other\u00a0Side) in 1977.\u00a0I am still involved off and on, in drama and theater. The last one I revised is the full length play, Komagata Maru<\/em>, staged by Gurdip Arts Academy in several cities\u00a0of British Columbia in 2014. The University of British Columbia’s\u00a0Theater\u00a0Department also staged\u00a0parts of this play under the direction of\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Anne Murphy\u00a0in 2014. <\/span><\/p>\n

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