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A radical of students from Odisha performed Shakespeare plays successful Santali astatine the International Shakespeare Festival 2026 successful Craiova, Romania, marking the 100th twelvemonth of the Ol Chiki publication of the tribal language.
The students staged Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth successful Santali astatine the festival, which featured 71 universities and much than 3,000 participants from astir the world.
The Santali connection is spoken by astir 7.6 cardinal radical crossed India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. It has been an officially recognised Scheduled Language of India since 2003 and serves arsenic an further authoritative connection successful States specified arsenic Jharkhand and West Bengal.
The Ol Chiki publication of the Santali connection marks its centenary successful 2026. In 1925, Guru Gomke Pandit Raghunath Murmu from Odisha’s Mayurbhanj territory developed the script. He created the chiseled 30-letter penning strategy specifically for the Santali connection to accurately seizure its unsocial phonetic features.
Ten students each from Odisha’s Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), who had travelled to Romania, besides performed the Shakespeare plays successful Santali astatine a peculiar programme organised with the Romanian Embassy successful New Delhi connected June 5 and 6.
The students were successful Romania nether the afloat funded Erasmus+ KA171 Student Mobility Programme, according to teachers from KIIT who were portion of the delegation accompanying them. The two-month world and taste internship programme was held from April 1 to May 31.
“It is not a theatre lawsuit alone, but besides a tribute to indigenous languages and cultures. For the archetypal time, Shakespeare’s plays person been written and enacted successful Santali, the connection of an Indian people that has a glorious past of absorption against British colonialism,” Dr. Suryasnata Mohanty, Joint Director, KIIT and KISS, said.
