07 January 2026, 06:00 pm
Faulad ka Aakash: Performative Readings of Mohan Rakesh’s Short Stories
Programme Type
Cultural
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

Faulad ka Aakash: Performative Readings of Mohan Rakesh’s Short Stories
Script: Purwa Bharadwaj 
Presented by Alka Rajan, Apoorvanand, Purwa Bharadwaj and Raza Haider

Mohan Rakesh is one of the leading names of Hindi fiction and Indian theatre. Generations of Hindi readers have grown on the writings of Mohan Rakesh. His keen observation of the dilemmas of the emerging individual in the post-independence India shaped his fiction. We try to bring out the subtlety of his writing in this presentation