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15 Minute Drama

Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary by Tanika Gupta part of Writing the Century: a drama series exploring the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people.

Set in 1930's Calcutta and based on letters and diary entries this is the true story of Tanika Gupta's great uncle Dinesh Gupta and his resistance to British Colonial rule.

Following the attack on the Writers' Building, Dinesh Gupta is incarcerated in a brutal prison regime awaiting trial.

Directed by Nadia Molinari. Show less

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