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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: 'My family make the Borgias look like the Waltons' by Arifa Akbar

She needed police protection after her play about a rape in a Sikh temple was axed mid-run. The playwright talks about the extraordinary upbringing that drives her Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was a bright, young playwright when life ambushed her art. She had just staged her second play, Behzti, which featured the rape of a young woman in a gurdwara, a place of worship, when some British Sikhs took affront. Protests turned i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PM on December 2, 2019

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