- Wednesday, May 01, 2024
By: Lauren Codling
by LAUREN CODLING A THEATRE director has revived a decade-old play, relating to Partition, to mark the 70th anniversary of India’s independence this year. Child of the Divide, which premiered in 2006, is about children who are displaced in a new, fractured world after the British left the subcontinent and created two independent countries, Pakistan and India. The play’s main character, Pali, finds himself separated from his Hindu family and brought up to be a Muslim. When his real father returns to claim him, Pali must decide who he really is; a follower of the Hindu faith he was born…
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