Flowering of Indian Drama : Growth and Development/edited by K. Venkata
Reddy and R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi, Prestige, 2004, 199 p., ISBN 81-7551-152-4.
Flowering of Indian Drama : Growth and Development/edited by K. Venkata
Reddy and R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi, Prestige, 2004, 199 p., ISBN 81-7551-152-4.
Contents: 1. Flowering of Indian drama/K. Venkata Reddy and R.K. Dhawan. 2. Background of the Indian theatre/Shailaja B. Wadikar. 3. Cultural heterogeneity in Indian drama/Obula Reddy. 4. Bhasa's Karna: a study/K. Venkata Reddy. 5. Tagore's Chitra: an archetypal analysis/R. Radhiga Priyadarshini. 6. Post-independence Indian drama and Badal Sircar/Santwana Haidar. 7. The versatility of Badal Sircar/Nandita Sinha. 8. Writer as fighter: concern for human rights violations in Mahasweta Devi's plays/M. Dasan. 9. Caste, class and gender in Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal/Brati Biswas. 10. Mohan Rakesh on page and stage/G.R. Taneja. 11. Mohan Rakesh's Halfway house: a thematic analysis/Shashi Khanna. 12. A re-reading of Girish Karnad's plays with reference to myth and folktale/Veena Noble Dass. 13. Girish Karnad's Yayati reconsidered/Seema Suneel. 14. Girish Karnad's Tale-Danda: painful rite of passage/Y. Somalatha. 15. Patterns of tension in Girish Karnad's Nagamandala and The fire and the rain/Lakhwinder Singh Gill. 16. Beyond the new critical bias: approximating the partition pain in Asif Currimbhoy's Refugee/T. Ravichandran. 17. The sensational issues in the plays of Mahesh Dattani/Sangeeta Das. 18. The tragic dilemma of Larins Sahib/Basavaraj Naikar. 19. Shiv Batalvi's Loona: the logic of recreation/B.M. Bhalla.
"Indian Drama, written both in English and translated into English from other languages, has registered a remarkable growth in recent years. The translations have forged a link between the East and the West, North and South and contributed to the growing richness of contemporary creative consciousness. The present book makes an innovative attempt at offering a wide and comprehensive gallery of Indian play wrights, evaluating their significant works, leading to an overall assessment of the fast-growing genre of drama. Included in this volume, amongst others, are Tagore, Asif Currimbhoy, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar, Mohan Rakesh, Mahashweta Devi, Shiv Batalvi, Gurcharan Das and Mahesh Dattani." (jacket)