Articles & Lectures

Published as “Bengali Drama” in Take on India, December 2019: It has become a knee-jerk reflex among Bengalis, habitually bemoaning their lost glories, to write off contemporary Bengali theatre compared

My illustrated lecture delivered at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, in May 2019, on YouTube in 3 parts:      

An article written for the Jadavpur University Society of American Studies in September 2018: When one retires, one reminisces, to the extent of boring listeners to death. But that’s what

My lecture at Rabindra Bhavan, Ahmedabad, in May 2018:

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

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

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

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>

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

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

A Jadavpur University Department of English research project to catalogue productions of Shakespeare in Calcutta in all languages from the beginnings to 1999, published as Shakespeare on the Calcutta Stage: