<p id="internal-source-marker_0.7825742000602396" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECTA Celebrates  Rabindranath Tagore's 150th Birth Anniversary with "Rajar Chithi"</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECTA  celebrates the great Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's  150th birth anniversary with a new play "Rajar Chithi' (Letter from the  King - a play in Bengali with subtitles in English) at the Edison Valley  Playhouse, 2196 Oak Tree Road, Edison NJ on June 11th (6.30pm), and  12th (5:00pm). Tickets are $20.00 and can be reserved by email to </span><a href="mailto:bhawmik@gmail.com"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000cc; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">bhawmik@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or online at </span><a href="http://ecta.ticketleap.com/rajar-chithi"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000099; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ecta.ticketleap.com/rajar-chithi</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During  Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to San Francisco in 1916, media reports  claim that there was an attempt by Indian nationalists to assassinate  Tagore. Fortunately the plan did not succeed and the poet was provided  with high level security by the local administration. It was further  reported that the primary cause for their failure was that the  nationalists could not agree amongst themselves as to whether they  should carry out the assassination.  But was it really a failure that  they couldn’t assassinate Tagore? Or was it the right thing to do? </span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The play  “Rajar Chithi” is a fictional account of the moral, ideological and  psychological conflicts these nationalist freedom fighters of India  possibly had to experience to arrive at this decision.  The play also  offers a deep insight into the social, political and philosophical  influence Tagore had on the people at a time when the entire World was  going through a great turmoil.</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The play is written and directed by Sudipta  Bhawmik.  The cast includes some very talented stage actors like  Subhodev Das, Pinaki Datta and Piu Majumdar.</span>