Sangeet Natak Akademi, Chandigarh’s initiative that Bihar should follow: collect old plays, make them accessible Chandigarh: except for the better known ones, plays in India tend to have very short life spans. Once performed and feted, they are often forgotten. Sangeet Natak Akademi, Chandigarh, has however taken a major initiative to address this problem by collecting old plays and making them accessible to theatre enthusiasts and scholars. Kamal Tewari, a theatre director and musician at the Akademi has mamanged to put together a “bank” of more than 600 Hindi, Punjabi and English...