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How much do we really know of Mahatma Gandhi? Mahadev Desai was Gandhi’s personal secretary from 1917 till his death in 1942. “The play draws on material from Mahadev Desai’s diaries, other historical documents and records, and innumerable conversations with people who were part of that era and who had many first-hand stories and anecdotes to share,” explains Jaimini Pathak. Pathak shoulders the responsibility of single-handedly bringing to life the many characters on to the stage from Mahadev Deasai, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. B R Ambedkar, through lively story-telling and a pinch of humour, as the plot shuttles back and forth in time. Once, there was an elderly man who got up from the audience while the actor was enacting Gandhi and cried out ‘I was there!’ At another time, a person came backstage and asked me if Mahadev Desai really existed.

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