TORONTO -- In the architecture of drama, playwright Tom Stoppard has drawn a thought-provoking memorial to the clash between the people of India and the Raj -- the quintessential human shape and form of British Imperialism.

Stoppard's Indian Ink (which opened at the Bluma Appel Theatre Thursday night) splits its time between colonial India in the the 1930s and post-colonial England of the '80s -- and in the process, finds a very human dimension in the love/hate relationship between the natives of this ancient land and their patronizing conquerors.
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