TAGORE: THE BEST-KEPT SECRET OF INDIAN THEATRE
My lecture at Rabindra Bhavan, Ahmedabad, in May 2018:
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June 2020
THEATRE EDUCATION IS ALMOST MISSING IN INDIA
An interview printed in The Times of India, March 2018: Download PDF: Ananda_Lal_TOI_Interview THEATRE EDUCATION IS ALMOST MISSING IN INDIA: ANANDA LAL It has been a 17-year-long journey and the
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A HOME FOR TAGORE PERFORMANCES AT LAST?
An article printed in the souvenir of the Happenings festival, January 2018. As I feared then, nothing has happened since, and the project seems ready for the dustbin as with
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SISIR BHADURI
My introduction to the book Natyacharya Sisir Kumar Bhaduri: Pioneer of Modern Indian Theatre by Amal Mitra (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2018): Public knowledge about Indian theatre history is sadly
LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION IN INDIA
My invited lecture at the Global Education Summit, Presidency University, Kolkata, January 2017. Uploaded by the Presidency University Bicentenary Celebrations at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z00rzl9qjjA>
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THE ROLE OF THE THEATRE CRITIC
An article contributed to Curtain Call: Celebrating Indian Theatre (New Delhi: Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, 2015): Indian philosophy says that we should never criticize, because the bad karma
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TAGORE IN KOLKATA THEATRE: 1986-2010
An essay in Towards Tagore (Kolkata: Visva-Bharati, 2014): Seventy years of placing Tagore on a pedestal effectively shut the door on the possibilities of engaging with the largest body of
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Earliest plays by K M Banerjea and M M Dutt
I’ve edited a new book containing the earliest plays of Krishna Mohan Banerjea and Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and the anonymously-written Kaminee, in the 19th century. Titled Indian Drama in English:
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Subrata Pal
Subrata Pal, who epitomized the invisible but indispensable man behind the scenes of Bengali theatre, doing his work for groups quietly but flawlessly, died recently. For him, theatre organization was