[Reader-list] Badal Sarkar (Badal Sircar) Memorial meeting on 19th May at Sri Ram Centre, New Delhi

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Time    : Thursday, May 19 · 6:30pm - 8:00pm


Badal Sarkar (Badal Sircar) Memorial meeting on 19th May at Sri Ram 
Centre To pay Homage to a Great Playwright & Theatre Activist !!


Badal Sarkar (Badal Sircar) (15 July 1925–13 May 2011) was an 
influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his 
anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and 
taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he 
founded his own theatre company, Shatabdi in 1976. He wrote more than 
fifty plays of which Ebong Indrajit, Basi Khabar, and Saari Raat are 
well known literary pieces, a pioneering figure in street theatre as 
well as in experimental and contemporary Bengali theatre with his 
egalitarian "Third Theatre", he prolifically wrote scripts for his 
Aanganmanch (courtyard stage) performances, and remains one of the most 
translated Indian playwrights.


Though his early comedies were popular, it was his angst-ridden Ebong 
Indrajit (And Indrajit) that became a landmark play in Indian theatre. 
Today, his rise as a prominent playwright in 1960s is seen as the 
coming of age of Modern Indian playwriting in Bengali, just as Vijay 
Tendulkar did it in Marathi, Mohan Rakesh in Hindi, and Girish Karnad 
in Kannada.


He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1972, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 
1968 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship- Ratna Sadsya, the 
highest honour in the performing arts by Govt. of India, in 1997.

Sri Ram centre
4, Safdar Hashmi Marg,
New Delhi 110001
Phone no:91 11 23714307