There is a drop in Rahul daCunha’s voice when we connect over the phone lines. For once, the tempo isn’t quite in full flow. He is just back after attending Dr Verghese Kurien’s funeral in Anand. “We had reached Mumbai after staging The Bureaucrat in Kuwait. I switched on my mobile, and got the news about Dr Kurien. So, I boarded the next flight to make it in time for his funeral, which was at 4 pm yesterday,” shares daCunha.

Dr Varghese Kurien (left) with u00a0Amitabh Bachchan and activist Anna Hazare at an awards function in New Delhi in 2011.