The theater met science in Nilanjan Chaudhary’s ‘The Trial of Abdus Salaam’.

With its new production, Abdus Salaam TestingWriter and playwright Nilanjan Chaudhary said “Science Theater”, where complex ideas of physics collide with human drama, and scientists emerge as struggling, charismatic heroes. Their functions do not just explain the scientific theory; This is its stage. Next Aonate square rootWho was delayed in the life of Indian-American theoretical physicist Subramaniam Chandrashekhar (who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize), Nilanan now attracts his attention to another South Asian talent: Pakistani physicist Abam.

Salaam, who is considered the first Muslim to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, remains an under-charity person despite his monumental contribution to modern science. “Many people are not aware of the existence of Abdus Salaam,” says Nilanjan. “It’s ashamed, because he is probably one of the biggest scientific talents to emerge from Asia. His story is both inspiring and heartbreaking.”

Abdus Salaam Testing The traditional sense is not a biography drama. Staging as a fictional court drama, in the last hour of his life, faces an prosecutor, who takes the voices of various people from his past: his father, colleague, lover, political figures and contradictions. Among them are Indira Gandhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and even voices from within the Orthodox Islamic establishment, who called Salaam a heretical. The story comes in the form of man, his science and dramatic inquiries of the state that eventually rejected him.

“In the theater, the struggle is everything,” Nilanjan says, “Salaam’s life was full of this. He did not find any contradiction between his faith and his scientific functions. But the outside world saw things differently. This made him both a visionary and a sad person.”

Born in India in a small village in Punjab, Born in India, Salaam was picked up in a modest house and signs of unique wisdom from a young age. That particle moved to develop basic principles in physics, especially the integration of weak atomic force and electromagnetic force – which is now called the standard model of particle physics. But his identity as an Ahmadiyya Muslim – mainstream Pakistani Islam is considered heretics – it meant that his contribution was erased in his country. Even Rabwah, on his grave in Pakistan, the word “Muslim” was scratched by the state decree.

“He was deeply injured by rejection,” says Nilanjan, who has been researching Salaam’s life since 2017. “And yet, he never stopped living in love with his country, or his faith. This stress makes him attractive.”

While their plays are not away from heavy scientific materials (Aonate square root A 30 -minute sequence of black hole formation is imagined), is careful to balance the cerebral with Nilanzan emotional. “Science is important,” he says, “but it is drama and emotional arcs that give life to sports.”

In Abdus Salaam TestingScience is density, symmetry-breaking, particle mass, and delay in subjects such as Higgs Boson, which helped to predict the principles of salute. Challenge, Chaudhary says, it is contained in presenting these abstract ideas in accessible, dramatic forms. “I want to create a feeling of surprise without the need for a degree of physics. This is about illuminating a spark, not to fill a bucket.”

Abdus Salaam Test | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The play also opposes easy classification – neither pure docudrama nor pure story. “I take freedom with conceived conversations and characters,” they say, “but everything lies in historical or emotional truth. If Salam is shown as proud or hurt, I want to ensure that it is supported by documentation or strong estimates.”

For Nilanjan, which seats corporate life with writing and theater, this style is not just a creative option. “Why don’t we write plays about our own scientists?” He asked himself. Asia’s scientists have stories that are just grand, as they are moving forward, and have been reported to be much less than their western counterparts. This is why Neeljan is trying to change. ,

after Abdus Salaam Test, He is working on a third science drama, focusing on India’s first female physicist, Bibha Chaudhuri, which he applies as a trilogy on South Asian scientists.

Abdus Salaam Testing (1 hour 40 minutes, 16 and older) will be staged in Ranga Shankara on 18 April.