Now, Khan is linking most of his shows with discharging a social responsibility. His latest venture Salesman Ramlal , to be staged at New Delhi's India Habitat Centre, will raise funds to rehabilitate victims of the Orissa cyclone, in a tie up with Shankar Ghose's National Foundation for India. The same play will be going to Calcutta to support Children in Pain, an organistion Khan has helped earlier with special shows of Saalgirah and Mahatma versus Gandhi.

The National Foundation for India is a national level grant-making and fund-raising non-profit organisation that supports developmental activities, focussing on the issues of poverty, illiteracy and ill health among the poor of the country. ``If I don't link my work to social responsibility, it does not make sense to me anymore. Iprefer giving my plays to organisations who are doing social work and need to raise money,'' says Khan.

He supports his statement with a few recent examples. ``Tumhari Amrita was staged in Chicago to help an organisation called India Development Service. They are based in the United States but fund Indian NGOs for their projects. The same play was held to help the US-based NGO Hunger Project which funds organisations providing food to the poor. We were also the first people in the world to perform in the United Nations to help the quake victims at Latur. The show raised more than $ 40,000. We also raised $ 35,000 in Stanford University to help Rejuvenate India, an organisation comprising Indian residents of the Silicon Valley,'' he says.

Khan's group has also performed in the Columbia University to raise funds for the institution of an India Chair there and held shows in Mumbai to help Latur refugees. Helping the needy and the economically challengedd comes naturally to him, claims Khan. ``Recently somestudents of Narsi Monji college, my alma mater, approached me for assistance. One of the girl students there was badly burnt in an acid attack. We immediately held a special show to raise funds for them,'' he says.

The, who remembers staging special shows of his one-act plays to help friends even in college, says theatre is an emotional experience for him. ``I don't want to make plays that appeal to the baser instincts. They should be a deep experience of joy or pain for the audience. I am lucky enough to be doing something I love. But, at the same time, I want my body of work to be of some help to people in need,'' he says.