Our Parsi Oganga

I recently attended the play Oganga! A Tribute to the Life of Albert Schweitzer, written by Dr Farokh E. Udwadia, the celebrated physician. It was ably directed by Sooni Taraporevala and superbly enacted by Jim Sarbh (it was a single-person play-reading).  As explained in the play, Schweitzer was a multifaceted genius and humanist who at an extremely young age held a doctorate in philosophy, a licentiate in theology and was a gifted pianist-organist with a lifelong love for the works of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He then underwent seven years of training to obtain a medical degree, specifically to go to Africa......



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