Besides a theatre personality Kamal is a keen educationist, having set up Tagore Niketan College in ‘61 and is now the director and chairman of the institute. Going beyond classroom teaching, Kamal gives his students a chance to come forward and display their talent and has created a platform by organising a cultural event every year at his own expense, directing, producing, funding and organising dance dramas, skits and one-act plays for them. To encourage students of the city to get involved in cultural pursuits, Kamal’s organized Utsav, a festival of dance, plays, mime, monoacting, declamation, debate...’’only if you take theatre beyond a theatre, will it grow and also, will the audience’s taste be developed,’’ Arora. The curtain never falls.

Parul