"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." In a single sentence, French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry captured the essence of his 1943 novella, The Little Prince. As evident by the million copies sold worldwide, it’s hard not to keep returning to the story of a pilot stranded in a desert, woken up by a little prince, once you’ve read it — irrespective of whether you’re a child or an adult. So, when city-based theatre artiste Rashi Bunny was invited for a talk at Kitab Khana in February and a parent asked her a question related to addressing young people through the arts, she simply got up and enacted a scene from the classic, which instantly got people curious.

Rashi Bunny