Category: Play
Genre: Historical fiction
Mahatma Gandhi ends his fast ensuring the withheld 55 crore rupees is released by the government of India to Pakistan, and all including the Mahasabha and the RSS signs the communal peace pact. The deputy prime minister Vallabhbhai Patel expresses his desire to resign from the cabinet, and Mahatma, the arbitrator to the dispute, proposes an outrageous plan to address the widening rift between Nehru and his deputy. The ‘secularists’ get upset at the rise of Patel while the Mahasabha gains popularity riding on the atrocities meted out to the Hindus and Sikhs during the partition migration.
While all these are happening, Nathuram Godse, on 30th January 1948, sprays three bullets into Mahatma Gandhi’s body bringing about his death. Nathuram and Narayan Apte confesses to their crime in the simplest of all murder investigations, but, is there more to it than what meets the eye? Is Godse an inadvertent pawn in a larger conspiracy?
From the author of Jinnah and Bose: The Missing Pages of History, comes another fictional historical play, Gandhi and Godse: The Mystery of the Fourth Wound.
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