Dilip Kumar Basu is a theatre activist. He is primarily a playwright, and then a director of and actor in plays. The plays are in Bengali, direction activities are connected with plays in Bengali; he acts in Hindi & Bengali theatre - he has done this mostly for the theatre groups Abhiyan & Natyokal.
Natyokal, in 1970s and '80s was not only a group, it was a movement embracing collective writing and direction. He was one of its founder members Abhiyan is still there, and Rajinder Nath's name is inextricably connected with it.
He taught plays (and other literature) in the English Department of Rajdhani College, Delhi University, and edited plays written or translated in English (as also other books). Writes articles on theatre.
Rajinder Nath (b.17.08.1934) has been one of the most eminent theatre directors of my time. I have acted in plays directed by him, and have been his colleague in Rajdhani College for a quarter of a century. have been a member for a long time of Abhiyan, the theatre group of which he has been a founder and where from the beginning he has directed nearly all the plays produced. Thus, I had the chance of watching the man and his working from close, and that was a privilege. Undertaking the work to create this present monograph will be a labour of love. As a theatre- activist, I also feel that creation of such monographs by NSD on the theatre-persons of contemporary India is an immensely necessary activity, and I feel grateful, probably on behalf of many other lovers of theatre, that such a project has been launched by the School. A few details of the way this particular monograph's sections will be arranged are as follows:
Since I have some years earlier written a modestly long piece on Rajinder Nath, my analysis of and informations on him will there be in separate sections of this book.
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