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Powerful play

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The Telegraph Online Published 14.06.05, 12:00 AM

The concluding scene of his play depicts a group of Indian soldiers finally landing at Molcham. The villagers are happy, thinking that their saviours have finally arrived. But it transpires that the soldiers have only brought the body of a Kargil martyr to his mother, for whom it is the second blow after losing her husband in an attack by Myanmarese forces.

?You are proud of Kargil heroes. But what will you do for my husband, who made a similar sacrifice in defending India?s border in this extreme corner of the Northeast?? the grieving woman asks.

Beeren?s postscript is equally hard-hitting. ?Delhi?s inability to treat all citizens equally gives rise to the flame of hatred, distrust and also encourages youths of the region to nurture the concept of separatism. This raises the big question ? who are we and where do we stand??

The play has been produced under the banner of the four-year-old Manipuri Theatre Academy.

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