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Vision divine ; Members of Anyodesh (another land), a theatre troupe from Kolkata led by Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, may be blind, but they face the world with a rare confidence despite being doubly diminished by poverty.

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From: India Today
Date: 20080707
Author:Sudip Bandyopadhyay

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The curtains have been pulled back. Flooded by a beam of light, the stage is about to host Raktokorobi, Red Oleanders, a play written by Rabindranath Tagore.

The performers, members of Anyodesh (another land), a theatre troupe from Kolkata led by Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, may be blind, but they face the world with a rare confidence despite being doubly diminished by poverty.

Gangopadhyay saw enormous potential in the sightless when he first met some visually-impaired artistes at a theatre workshop in Kolkata's Behala Blind School in 1994.

Two years later, he, who ...

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Vision divine ; Members of Anyodesh (another land), a theatre troupe from Kolkata led by Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, may be blind, but they face the world with a rare confidence despite being doubly diminished by poverty.

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