A new exhibition about the indefinable performer and designer won’t pigeonhole him, though it will bring his work to a much broader audience.

Although one of the founder members of the Nai Kahani Movement, Mohan Rakesh is better known as a playwright. It is these — ‘Ashaadh ka Ek Din’, ‘Aadhe Adhoore’ and ‘Lehron ke Rajhans’, among others — ...