New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- It took a minute of warm applause for their nerves to finally settle and they were all smiles. Having travelled by bus and train for over 40 hours, this team of young student-actors and musicians from Kathmandu had worked hard for this moment, looking forward to it with nervous excitement. They had just performed their play 'Katha Kasturi' as part of the Bharat Rang Mahotsav, the world's biggest theatre festival, in New Delhi.

Organised annually by the National School of Drama (NSD), the festival's silver jubilee edition was themed 'Ek Rang, Shrestha Rang'-one expression, supreme creation. The festival, which concluded last week, saw over 200 productions from around the world. The Kathmandu-based theatre institute A...