Our Previous Projects.

Book cover image: Macmillan 1999

FLANDERS - FORGOTTEN HEROES
(Asian Voices From World War One - Soldiers' Letters 1914-18)

The aim of this project is...

Mán Melá has done a significant amount of work on subjects related to the Indian soldiers in the First World War. A brief introduction...

Some related information on the subject of WW1 and contribution of the Indian soldiers is available from the following two links, which lead to pages on our old site:

A small poetic reminder
Literature which has influenced this work by Mán Melá

The following highlight the need for such a project:

Views of John McLaverty, Head of Humanities at Swanlea School.
A WW1 soldier's letter home.

Lots more to appear here soon.

Another recent project was to commemorate the life and works of Mulk Raj Anand, a freedom fighter and a brilliant novelist from India.

Born on 12th Dec 1905, he sadly passed away on 28th Sep 2004. He would have been 100 in Dec 2005. This celebration of his life and writing with Mán Melá Theatre Company was Introduced by Dr Alastair Niven, OBE.

A word about the event from our chairman, Tim Bennett-Goodman
A few words about the event from Mr Pavan K Varma, Nehru Centre

Details about this event were published on this site. They can be viewed here.

All past projects from Mán Melá can be viewed on our old website at this link.

Image Galleries

An image gallery of the Mulk Raj event .