Samik Bandyopadhyay
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Collected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar, Volume II brings together eight critically acclaimed plays--Holi, Flower of Blood, God Son, As One Discardeth Old Clothes , Autobiography, Party, Pond, and Apocalypse--by the noted Marathi playwright.'Holi', the first play in the collection, is about a group of restless, directionless, and disillusioned youngsters on the campus, who finally vent their frustrations on a gullible victim, ending in a gruesome tragedy. ...
In the seventies, Mahasweta Devi dramatized one of her major novels, Mother of 1084, and four of her finest stories, convinced that as plays they would be more accessible to the largely illiterate audience she wanted to reach. In the five plays in this anthology, the mother of a Naxalite martyr ‘discovers’ her son (and in the process her self) a year after his death; a slave enslaved by an ancient bond discovers too late that the bond has turned to dust years ...
In Search of Famine takes a Felliniesque look at a young film director's effort to portray, with commitment and honesty, the famine that ravaged Bengal in 1943. Forty years after the event, and within a village setting, the young filmmaker comes up against a famine that still runs relentlessly on; and he is faced with a community of elders which resists both reality and the cinema. As a result, his task becomes irretrievably difficult. Mrinal Sen built his ...
Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi 1979 and Jnanpith 1996 awards, amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work amongst dispossessed tribal communities. This sensitive novel, written in 1973-74, deals with the psychological and emotional trauma of a mother who awakens ...
In this remarkably candid interview with his close friend, scholar and critic, Mrinal Sen reminisces about a long and eventful life in cinema, weaving into it a rich matrix of socio-political, literary and cultural movements that have proved to be of lasting influence in his art. Internationally and nationally renowned personalities from the worlds of cinema, theatre, literature and politics peek through these pages, recreating the vibrant times that both Sen and ...
This book is a supplementary volume to English-Bengali Dictionary fifth edition available on India club web site as BC 3181. It records and explains the new words and new uses of old words that have come into the language in the last half century. This New Samsad English-Bengali Dictionary of Contemporary English was originally conceived as a long appendix to the fifth edition of the Samsad English-Bengali Dictionary, recording and explaining the new words and ...
Mahesh Elkunchwar has written and produced some of the most influential and progressive plays of post-independence India, and is part of the trilogy, with Vijay Tendulkar and Satish Alekar, who have shaped modern Marathi theatre. Elkunchwar's plays, with their wide-ranging themes--the passage of time and mortality, identity and sexuality, religious tension and gender issues, human bonding and alienation--focus on human relationships and personal and moral ...
Satish Alekar has written, acted in, directed, and produced some of the most influential and progressive plays of post-independence India, and is part of the trinity, with Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Elkunchwar, that has shaped modern Marathi theatre. Alekar locates himself firmly in the performance rather than literary tradition, and is recognized internationally for his ability to use the stage to portray the many deceptions and fallacies of Indian society. His ...