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2 unusual facts about Shanta Gandhi


Shanta Gandhi

She was married to Marxist historian, Victor Kiernan 1938 in Bombay (now Mumbai), but the couple divorced 1946 before Keirnan left India.

She joined Pupil's Own School, an experimental residential school in Pune in 1932, where she was classmate of Indira Gandhi.


Jaishankar Prasad

In 1960s, Shanta Gandhi Professor of Ancient Indian Drama at while at National School of Drama, revived interest in Jaishankar Prasad’s plays for modern Indian theatre, by successfully staging his most important play Skanda Gupta written in 1928, with little changes to the original script, thus quashing doubts over its "stagability".


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