Aikyatan
Aikyatan is a progressive drama group based in Guwahati in Assam founded by humor writer and film critic Pabitra Kumar Deka, historian and former principal of Cotton College Udayaditya Bharali, writer Anil Kumar Deka, editor of the Assamese daily Asomiya Pratidin Nitya Bora and others in 1976. [1] It has produced plays including Janani, Surjastak, Panchatantra, Night of January 16, and A Doll's House.[2][3][4]
Formerly, the group was called Naxa Natya Parishad in the late sixties and early seventies. It staged the Assamese adaptation of Bertolt Brecht play Maa (Mother) based on the story of Maxim Gorky in 1974 in Guwahati. The play was translated by Pabitra Kumar Deka, advisor was Kulada Kumar Bhattacharya, direction by Ratna Ojha with music by Bhupen Hazarika.[5][6]
Aikyatan Sangeet Vidyalay, a school for learning western and Indian music was also formed by Aikyatan.[7][8]
The group was most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 2010s it was revived by filmmaker Prodyut Kumar Deka.[9][10][11][12] [13] [14]
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