Wedding Album Publication Date: July 1, 2011Wedding Album, the latest play written by renowned playwright Girish Karnad, is a hilarious and moving spectacle that is deeply revelatory about the India that we live in today. The central characters of this play portray the modern, middle-class, Indian family: a daughter who lives in Australia with her husband and children, a son who is a media professional, a younger daughter who is willing to marry a 'suitable' boy from the US whom she has never met, a doting mother, an ageing father rapidly losing his authority, and a loyal cook. Wedding Album operates at t...
Two Plays: Indian History Made Easy/Life of Bagala Publication Date: January 1, 2010This volume includes two plays?Indian History Made Easy ('Sukhapathya Bharater Itihas', first produced in 1976) and Life of Bagala ('Bagalacharitmanas', first produced in 1998)?by renowned playwright Badal Sircar. Dealing with one of the most crucial periods in Indian history, namely British colonialism, Sukhapathya Bharater Itihas (1976) is significant in forging a unique relationship between form and content. To match the content, Sircar uses the form of classroom teaching. With Teachers instructing Students, he covers more than three hundred years of Briti...
Who wants to be an American citizen? Publication Date: September 1, 2010StorylineThings are not going too well for Jai Katragantala, Senior Programmer Analyst from Indialocked away at the Immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. He has been thrown in the lam for several serious documentation violations.A stroke of luck gets Jai selected for a parole contest initiated by the US government to improve their image world-wide.At stake for Jai is his freedom and a chance to unite with Rukki, his childhood sweetheart. Anchor and anti-immigration evangelist Drew Droblin tries his best to give Jai a bum steer.But the Indian p...
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