BySiddhi Jain

August 10, 2021 (IANSlife) As part of the national initiative of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Independence, the National School of Drama (NSD) will stage three tales of freedom. Inspired from struggles and stories of freedom, the three plays 'Jagdamba', 'Bapu' and 'Pehla Satyagrahi' will be staged physically from August 12-14 in association with various eminent theatre directors and artists. 

According to NSD, the three-day event will showcase the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi, along with Kasturba Gandhi and others during the freedom struggle. With such tales of glory, these plays will introduce you to moments of utmost importance in the freedom struggle, it said.

The event will be inaugurated in the NSD campus by Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State (Culture and
Parliamentary Affairs). 

NSD Chairman Paresh Rawal said: "The struggles and events in the freedom struggle have their own inspirations, their own messages, which today's India can imbibe and move forward. We have to use different mediums to spread these inspirations to the masses, this platform is one of them. In these plays, from Mahatma Gandhi's South Africa movement to Champaran, Salt Satyagraha, Non-Cooperation Movement, Dandi March Quit India Movement along with Kasturba Gandhi's contribution towards independence will be displayed."
 

NSD also says that Covid protocols will be implemented in view of the pandemic allowing only 50 percent of the auditorium.

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