Dawn on NAPA

It is becoming ominously clear that Napa’s impending closure is not more than a manifestation of the politics of revenge, even though Benazir Bhutto’s immortal words ‘democracy is the best revenge’, could not have implied the callous undoing of the good that her detractors were capable of. This observation finds resonance in history where previous governments sought to eliminate all traces of development by their predecessors, not caring about how the citizenry could benefit from it. Napa and its repertory theatre are at the threshold of giving a new lease of life to the performing arts. Surely, a notice of warning in the case of a breach of agreement would not be a first. Besides, the idea of ‘giving it back’ to the Hindu community should have occurred to earlier dispensations. Today, the gesture appears nothing more than a political stunt.