My obituary on Girish Karnad, published in Mail Today: https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/many-myths-one-man-girish-karnad-1547245-2019-06-12 Don’t let them escape. Men, women, children – cut them all down. Set the hounds after them. Search each wood, […]
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My illustrated lecture delivered at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, in May 2019, on YouTube in 3 parts:
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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
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My lecture at Rabindra Bhavan, Ahmedabad, in May 2018:
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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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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
A HOME FOR TAGORE PERFORMANCES AT LAST? Read More »
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>
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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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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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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, 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
