No Dogs, No Indians

Occupied Bengal, 1932, a young woman named Pritilata Waddedar is preparing to lead a team of revolutionaries to attack a whites-only club in Chittagong, an act of defiance that will end in taking her own life. The sign above the club reads 'No Dogs, No Indians'.

Decades later, Shyamal Chatterjee is an aspiring intellectual born into post-independence Kolkata. He is in love with all things British, from Shakespeare to cricket and The Beatles. But as he contemplates the past and imagines his children’s future, he begins to question his own identity.

2017, 70 years after independence. Ananda Chatterjee has returned from London on the news of his father’s death. In the new India, he encounters steel magnates, supermodels and tech millionaires. But behind the gloss of success, he is haunted by ghosts from India's past - and from his own.

Marking the 70th anniversary of independence, these intertwining stories explore the effects and legacy of the British in India in a powerful new play by poet and playwright Siddhartha Bose (Kalagora) and is part of the GemArts Masala Festival.