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
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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
Under the commitment and direction of Sima Mukhopadhyay, Rangroop continues to place women at the centre of its plays, as exemplified by its latest, Garal. Based on the short story by
Atelier’s Campus Theatre festival notches up its 12th season, and visited Kolkata again last weekend with its curation of the best of Delhi’s college productions. How we wish that someone
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Aneek’s annual Ganga Jamuna Natya Utsab has become the best platform to view a range of Bangladeshi theatre. This year, most of the seven productions interpreted landmarks from various literatures.
Because the Minerva festival receives generous public funding, it attracts more stringent scrutiny. Its attempt to replicate the failed model of the National School of Drama Mahotsav stupefies. Viewers had
