Updated On: 07 July, 2013 09:45 AM IST | | Rinky Kumar
Postcards From Bardoli, a new English play, charts the journey of a young boy who strives to help the drought-hit farmers of Maharashtra seeking answers from the 1928 Bardoli satyagraha led by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Mahatma Gandhi is widely known for the 1930 Dandi March and how it strengthened the farmers’ position in India. But it’s a little known fact that in 1928 Vallabhbhai Patel started the Bardoli satyagraha to provide relief to drought-stricken farmers of Gujarat from increased land tax rates imposed by the British India government. This successful agitation earned him the title ‘Sardar’.

Postcards From Bardoli explores a father-son relationship. While Jaimini Pathak (left) plays the happy-go-lucky father, Amol Parashar (right) essays the role of the idealistic sonu00a0