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Badal Sircar
A Legacy of Bringing Theatre to the People
[Badal Sarkar, a revolutionary, pro-people theatre personality and a unique and towering figure in the cultural movement, passed away on 13th May. Rohini Hensman is a writer and independent scholar based in Bombay. She has published extensively on issues of workers' rights, women's rights and the rights of minorities, and is the coauthor of B Alexander Theodore Callinicos (born 24 July 1950) is a Zimbabwean-born British political theorist and activist. In an academic capacity, he serves as Professor of European Studies at King's College Suvir Kaul is the A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Cornel West (born 2 June 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist and preeminent public intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Prof जवरीमल्ल पारख साहित्य, सिनेमा और मीडिया पर नियमित लेखन करते रहे हैं। अब तक � Joan Jara is a British-Chilean dancer and activist, and wife of the Chilean poet-songwriter and theatre director Víctor Jara. Joan Jara is the founder of the Víctor Jara Foundation. Indian playwright Sudhindra Sircar (15 July 1925 – 13 May 2011), also known as Badal Sarkar, 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 transformed his own theatre company, Shatabdi (established in 1967 for proscenium theatre ) as a third theatre group . 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.[2][3] Though his early comedies were popular, it was his angst-ridden Evam Indrajit (And Indrajit) that became a landmark play in Indian theatre.[4] Today, his rise as a prominent playwright in 1960s is seen as t
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Sudhindranath (Badal) Sircar was born in 1925. He had an engineering degree from the Shibpur Engineering college and he worked in England in the 1960s.
In the turbulent period of Bengal in the late 1960s and 1970s, marked by the impact of the Naxalbari uprising and severe repression, Sircar arrived at a new theatrical idiom, taking theatre beyond the proscenium stage, to the common people. He established the theatre group Shatabdi in 1967, and with its repertoire of anti-establishment plays, Shatabdi toured the Bengal countryside, braving state terror and armed brigades of state-sponsored goons.
Theatre activists and groups like Yuvaneeti of the ML movement in the Hindi-speaking states drew great inspiration and support from Badal Sircar. He often visited Allahabad and other places, holding workshops, meeting young activists and offering advice and support. •
Badal Sircar
Rohini Hensman
Alex Callinicos
Suvir Kaul
Cornel West
Jawarimal Parakh
Joan Jara
Walter Chamba
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