Other Social Works
He also earned money for the victims of the 1943 Bengal Famine by doing many plays, and donating the money earned from those plays for the needy in Bengal, and the nearby area.
He was chosen by the then Prime Minister Pandit Nehru twice to go to China for the Indo-China peace-making programme.
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