About The Event
Lala Ji Ne School Banaya Hai
English Hindi | Historical Fiction | Dramatic Reading |12+
What if the story behind one of India's most iconic schools was not found in archives, but in imagination? Not in documented history, but in the values that have endured for over a century.
Lala Ji Ne School Banaya Hai is an original work of dramatic fiction inspired by the founding of Modern School. It does not seek to recreate history. Instead, it ventures into a more evocative space: the realm of myth, memory and possibility. It imagines the moment when rejection became resolve, when personal disappointment awakened a larger question about India, education and self-respect, and when the foundations of a school began to evolve into the foundations of an idea.
Through an extraordinary dramatic imagination, some of India's greatest minds gather, not as historical personalities, but as living embodiments of the values that define education itself. Literature, freedom, science, art, courage, equality, discipline, excellence and compassion enter into conversation, asking timeless questions that remain as urgent today as they were a century ago.
Presented as A Living Legend in Word & Raga, this intimate theatrical invocation brings together spoken performance, dramatic narration and the evocative power of Hindustani classical music. Together, voice and raga create an experience that is neither a conventional play nor a script reading, but an evening of reflection where imagination becomes the stage.
Presented by acclaimed actor and Modern School alumnus Abhinav Chaturvedi, the performance draws its authenticity not from historical certainty, but from emotional truth. It is a tribute to every teacher who inspired, every student who questioned, every institution that dared to define itself by values rather than privilege. The play has been written by Mrinal Mathur, himself a Modernite and one of India's most prolific contemporary playwrights.
For Modernites, it is an invocation to rediscover the soul of an institution that has shaped generations. For educators, parents and students, it is a profound exploration of the philosophy of education. For lovers of literature, history and theatre, it is a rare theatrical form where storytelling, classical music and collective imagination converge.
Come, not to witness the history of a school, but to discover the legend of an idea that continues to shape generations.
