Having climbed to the pinnacle of power in the court of the Gupta king, the poet Kalidas returns home to find that the world he had left behind has remembered him too well. Set in the 4th century, this is one of Mohan Rakesh's best-known plays.

Aug 8, 1942: On the day Gandhi launched the Quit India movement in Bombay, a band of rebels met in Patna to plot their own campaign. Led by a University of Colorado trained philosopher, they planned to blow up public buildings and landmarks to sabotage both the Quit India movement and the British Empire. A veteran of World War I was recruited to build bombs; a renegade Congressman provided ideological cover; a couple of businessmen provided money; a restauranteur offered his backyard as a bomb factory. This is the story of their campaign its motivations, flaws, triumphs and failures.