Madhu Rye is one of the best known playwrights writing in Gujarati. His work received wide attention in the early 1970s and he has continued to interest succeeding generations of theatre practitioners ever since. Of the two plays in this volume, The Terrace (Kumarni Agashi) is an unsettling expos? of repressive sexual morality; while Tell Me the Name of a Flower (Koi-punn Ek Phool Nu Naam Bolo Tho?) unravels a murder mystery through the lives of a theatre company. Both feature amongst the best-known works of contemporary Gujarati drama.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vijay Padaki
Vijay Padaki is co-founder and Director of the P&P Group, a Bangalore-based management research and consultancy centre with a special focus on organization and institutional development. Early in this career he headed the Human Resources Division of ATIRA (Ahmedabad Textile Industry Research Association). He was a member of the founding faculty of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, where he designed courses in research methodology, organizational behaviour, marketing research, organizational development and rural socio-technical systems. Besides setting up the Chimanlal Lalbhai Centre for Management, Ahmedabad, and helping to formulate the first comprehensive research-based textile policy for India in 1985, he has also been a Visiting Professor in Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Science and Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute for social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He has published several books, including Industrial Sickness: Intervention and Programme Evaluation: concepts and Cases (Sage 2001, edited) and Institutional Development in Social Interventions: Towards Inter-Organizational Effectiveness. With a deep involvement in the theatre over many years, he has authored over 25 plays, including a national award-winning playscript. His plays have been produced internationally.
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