Theatre in an Orchard ; No Ekalavya, You Can't Cut Off Your Thumb to Pay Your Gurudakshina. It Belongs to All of Us, the Heart-Wrenching Cry Rents the Air. A Whole Village Becomes His Stage As a Man Puts Together a Self- Sufficient Artistes' Commune. The Creator, Kallol Bhattacharya has Given Shape to a Theatre Group Ebong Amra, His First Love, for Which He Developed a Unique Commune with the Help of the Villagers.

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No Ekalavya, you can't cut off your thumb to pay your gurudakshina. It belongs to all of us, the heart-wrenching cry rents the air.

The scene, reminiscent of Ekalavya's fate in Mahabharata, is different from what we are familiar with and so is the scenario artistes enacting a play in a poverty-stricken village.

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Theatre in an Orchard ; No Ekalavya, You Can't Cut Off Your Thumb to Pay Your Gurudakshina. It Belongs to All of Us, the Heart-Wrenching Cry Rents the Air. A Whole Village Becomes His Stage As a Man Puts Together a Self- Sufficient Artistes' Commune. The Creator, Kallol Bhattacharya has Given Shape to a Theatre Group Ebong Amra, His First Love, for Which He Developed a Unique Commune with the Help of the Villagers.

The creator, Kallol Bhattacharya is also an exception as he not only dreams big, but has his feet firmly rooted in reality....

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