- Govind Deshpande
Govind Purushottam Deshpande (born 1938) also known as GoPu, his Marathi initials, or GPD, is a
Marathi playwright and academic.He taught Chinese Studies at the
Jawaharlal Nehru University inNew Delhi for many years. Currently retired, he lives inPune with his wife Kalindi, a women's movement activist. He writes a column in the "Economic and Political Weekly",Mumbai .He is a well-known essayist and critic. His collection of essays on culture and politics was published in 2006 (Dialectics of Defeat: Problems of Culture in Post-Colonial India, Seagull, Kolkata, 2006), and he also recently published a collection of poems, "Ityadi Ityadi Kavita" (Etc. etc. poems).He is the recipient of the Sangit Natak Akademi (India's National Performing Arts Academy) award, as well as the Maharashtra State award.
Some of Deshpande's best-known plays
*Udhwastha Dharmashala (published in English as "A Man in Dark Times")
*Andhar Yatra (A Journey in Darkness)
*Satyashodhak (The Truth Seeker)on the life and times of the 19th-century social reformerJotiba Phule Performed by Jan Natya Manch.
*Antim Divas [ Film-"Chek de India" fame Shilpa Shukla(Bindia Nayak)acted in it with director Arvind Gaur,2001]
*Music SystemSome of his plays, in English translation, are available from Seagull books, www.seagullindia.com/books..
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