As a part of it’s monthly series Zest! — a platform to promoteyouth theatre at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the theatre wing of Rashtra Bhasha Parivaar, Nagpur will be performing author Saadat Hasan Manto’s famous short story, Toba Tek Singh, in the city today.

Partition tales
Set in an asylum in Lahore, post-Partition, Toba Tek Singh is a story that deals with the trauma of uprooting that several Indians and Pakistanis underwent, shared through the views of its inmates. “I feel that every few years, Toba Tek Singh should be brought back in public memory to make everyone privy to the emotions post-Partition.