Nabanna (drama)

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Nabanna is a Bengali language drama written by Bijon Bhattacharya in 1944 and staged by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) the same year under the joint direction of Sombhu Mitra and Bijon Bhattacharya, and in 1948, by Bohurupee under the direction of Sombhu Mitra.{{cite book|author=Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker|title=Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLQaz-12Eo8C&pg=PA407|access-date=23 August 2012|date=1 November 2005|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-0-87745-961-3|pages=407–}} The play is about the Bengal famine of 1943. The Bengal IPTA took the play to many parts of India as a part of its festival, Voice of Bengal, and it became a major success and collected lakhs of rupees for famine relief in rural Bengal.{{cite book|author1=Lisa Lowe|author2=David Lloyd|title=The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital|url=https://archive.org/details/politicsofcultur00lowe|url-access=registration|access-date=23 August 2012|date=27 October 1997|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-2046-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/politicsofcultur00lowe/page/438 438]–}}{{cite web|title=Ritwik Ghatak notes|url=http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc47.2005/ghatak/notes.html|publisher=ejumpcut.org|access-date=22 August 2012}}