Contemporary Indian English Drama : An Overview

Contents: Preface. 1. Evolution of Indian English Drama. 2. Asif Currimbhoy. 3. Nissim Ezekiel. 4. Girish Karnad. 5. Vijay Tendulkar. 6. Mahesh Dattani. 7. Postscript. Index.

"Contemporary Indian English Drama: an Overview, a comprehensive historical-cum-critical venture reviews the birth, the gestation and the evolution of this genre perusing briefly the significant contributions by R.N. Tagore, Aurobindo, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya and Badal Sircar as playwrights laying the foundation of the renaissance of Indian English Drama and also providing a firm ground for subsequent playwrights, of which Asif Currimbhoy, Nissim Ezekiel, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani are evaluated in detail validating their efforts in continuation of this tradition. Inclusion of Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Badal Sircar and Nissim Ezekiel widens the horizon of the book. The postscript" analyses some recent and upcoming playwrights like Uma Parmeshwaran, Manju Padmanabhan, Dina Mehta, Zubin Driver, Ninaz Khodaiji and Ramu Ramanathan with the final inference that Indian Drama in English is not a dying tradition." (jacket)