The origin of unseen, a performance piece by actress Kalyanee Mulay, directed by Vishnupad Barwe, can be traced to 1891, when a letter written by Rabindranath Tagore was published in the Bharati Periodical. It was a response to Pandita Ramabai’s speech where she said that women can do anything men can, except drinking alcohol. In his letter at that time, Tagore, who was 30 years old then, had sounded critical about women’s rights. However, in his later years, he went on to become one of the strongest voices in the movement towards women’s emancipation. Mulay and her team stumbled upon that letter in 2012, during their research on Tagore’s work, on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary. Reading the letter churned thoughts in Mulay that needed a creative outlet of some sort.