SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY

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GANTABYA (The destination)

Play	Rod Langley
Translation and Direction	Suman Mukhopadhyay
First performed	February 10, 1997

About the play

The hero in any age is one who carries out with a surpassing degree of devotion, determination, courage and skill the main tasks with which his times challenge every man. Today these tasks are world-wide and the contemporary hero - whether he works at home or in a foreign land - is a world hero, not only in historical retrospect but now.
Norman Bethune was such a hero.

Norman Bethune was a doctor. And he fought with and within his profession with the weapons he knew best.

He was an expert and a pioneer in his own science - he kept his weapons sharp and fresh. And he devoted his great skill, consciously and consistently, to the vanguards of the struggle against fascism and imperialism.

Bethune changed his destinations throughout his life and reached one. In the movement of history people have also changed their ways again and again. But today our.

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