Writing

Badal Sircar

Born July 15, 1925 · Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Died May 13, 2011 · aged 85

Badal Sircar, 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 as a third theatre group . He wrote more than fifty plays of which Evam Indrajit, Basi Khabar, a…