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First published in 2020 for private circulation among theatre folk, this book features two plays by Mrinal Mathur. Two plays that tell two stories of dissent and change. Of people who protest, but without pelting stones and by becoming the change they wish to see in this world. "Didi I.A.S." is about a bureaucratic conspiracy to curb anti - establishment art by creating an 'Indian Artistic Service.' But even when all artistic opposition has been mollified and institutionalised, an innocent voice breaks free. In "Lalaji Ne School Banaya Hai", a nationalist in British India fights for the common man's right to give his children an education reserved thus far for the privileged and princely class. The play is the story of how an Indian public school came to be, rather than the English public schools of the time that merely 'operated' in India.