Be a good boy and attend diligently to your studies and at the same time look to the comforts of your grandparents and your mother." Part of a short, affectionate letter penned by Sarat Chandra Bose to Amiya or Ami, this sentence proved to be a father's way of comforting his son ahead of his matriculation examination, owing to Bose's sudden arrest by the British authorities in Bihar. Accounts such as these have been detailed in The Bose Brothers and Indian Independence: An Insider's Account, a book written by Madhuri Bose, Amiya's daughter.

Both Sarat and his brother Subhas staunchly opposed the British colonial regime as an eminent barrister and a leader of the Indian nationalist movement respectively. And thus, detention and imprisonment was a part and parcel of their lives. But even during difficult times, they maintained correspondence with young Amiya. And it is these words drawn from Madhuri Bose's book that will find space on stage this week, at a Bandra auditorium, before a performance scheduled at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) next month.