Two typists in Connaught Place, Delhi, grow old together while typing addresses on postcards. Faced with the most mundane and meaningless job in the world, they type away with gusto for thirty years, along the way trying their hand at poetry, re-enacting the Mahabharat, staging a play of their own and pontificating on political matters. The play describes an eight-hour working day in their lives which magically coincides with the passage of thirty years. Inspired by Murray Schisgal's THE TYPISTS, 8 GHANTE was written by Naatak co-founder Sujit Saraf and was first performed in 1997 - by Naatak. Since then, this witty, fast-paced satire has been successfully staged all over the US, at the National School of Drama in Delhi and in almost every major city in northern India.

A wily Nawab, lording it over a city, finds his plans have gone awry when the dead man he has eulogized turns out to be a donkey. His solution is simple, stark and ruthless. Performed with live music, the play is a hilarious romp through the ways of power and politics in India.