Contemporary Indian Drama in English: Trends and Issues

The book, a collection of research papers on the trends and issues in the plays of Badal Sircar, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Mahasweta Devi and some others, is designed to cater the needs of the students and research scholars of the universities of India and abroad. The research papers included in this volume examine some of the most heated controversies of the contemporary times, such as the anti-theatrical debate, the legitimacy of sectarian violence, discourses of gender, perspectives of ecofeminism, disability rights movements, pseudo liberalism,power politics, and so on.