India, Sept. 14 -- The pandemic has been catastrophic, the kind which we had never foreseen or imagined, for each and every other business. Not surprisingly, the theatre as well as the performing artistes seem to be acing the list. Actor, writer, director and the co-founder of the Akshara National Classical Theatre, Jalabala Vaidya, launches an initiative, Save The Stage, to make the government and corporate India support the theatre industry in a much more meaningful way.

Since time immemorial, India's culture has been kept alive by performing artistes and storytellers but the pandemic has pushed us all to the edge. "Surviving as an artist is always an incessant struggle. We, at the Akshara, have been struggling for the last 50 years wi...