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 Badal Sircar also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti- establishment plys during the Naxalite Movement in the 1970's and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he transformed his own theatre company, ' Shatabdi ' as a third theatre group. He wrote more than 50 plays of which Evam 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 Anganmanch (Courtyard stage) performances and remains one of the most translated Indian playwrights. Though his early comedies were popular, it was his anst-ridden Evam Indrajit (And Indrajit) that become a landmark play in Indian theatre. Today his rise as a prominent playwright in 1960s is seen as the coming of the age of Modern Indian playwriting in B...

 Girish Karnad is an Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose films and plays, written largely in Kannada , explore the present by way of the past. He wrote his first play, the critically acclaimed Yayati , the story is centred on the mythological king, the play established Karnad's use of the themes of history and mythology that would inform his work over the following decades. Karnad's next play, Tughlaq , tells the story of the 14th century Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughlaq and remains among the best known of his works. Samskara marked Karnad's entry into film making. He wrote the screenplay and played the lead role in the film, an adoption of an anti-caste novel of the same name by U.R. Anathamurthy. He continued to produce work as a playwright, including Hayavadana widely recognised as among the most important playa of Post Independence India. For his contribution to theater, he was awarded the Padmashree, in 1974. He worked in Hindi, directing the criti...