Ayan Banerjee, Anusree Bonnerjee and Nilesh Singha

"Our teachers and the students, who are also performers, are a family that honours Tagore's legacy every year. It keeps our Bengali connect alive in this multicultural city, so Shahana is not just a cultural institute," says Anusree Bonnerjee about the NGO founded in 1975, ahead of its latest stage production, Premer Jowar. Directed by Bonnerjee and conceived by Udayan Bhattacharya, the dance drama is an amalgamation of Shyama, one of Rabindranath Tagore's last dramas, and his poem, Porishodh.