Mahakal Natya Sampradaya’s acclaimed play Nishiman Bisarjan will be staged in three venues of Kolkata as part of the theatre festival titled Rabindra Natoke Dui Bangla. The play which is an adaptation of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Bisarjan and directed by Ashiq Rahman Liyon, depicts some contemporary burning issues including terrorism and fundamentalism presented in the original story.

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