- Ananda Lal
Ananda Lal was born in 1955 in
Calcutta ,India . He completed his education in Calcutta and his doctorate in Theatre fromUniversity of Illinois . Now he works as Professor of English atJadavpur University , Calcutta. He also translates from Bengali to English, is a theatre critic of The Telegraph (Calcutta) and directs university theatre.His books include Rabindranath Tagore:
Three Plays ,Rasa : The Indian Performing Arts, Shakespeare on the Calcutta Stage, andTwist in the Folktale . He also edited the Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre.He is the son of P.Lal
Work
Dr Ananda Lal contributed articles on classical and modern
Indian literature to theMicrosoft Encarta Encyclopedia (on CD-ROM). He is an active translator fromBengali poetry , contributing to theOxford Tagore Translations while also publishing translations ofJibanananda Das . He co-ordinates the Translation Studies course in the postgraduate syllabus and has been active in talks withKatha in their proposal to set up a Translation Centre in the English and Comparative Literature Departments.He contributed to the Department's textbook, English for All. He provided the introduction, commentary and translated texts for the CD, The Voice of Rabindranath Tagore (
Hindusthan ). In 1999, with Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri, he visitedLa Trobe andMonash Universities, Australia in connection with theShakespeare in Asia project, and has jointly edited the DSA publication, Shakespeare on the Calcutta Stage: A Checklist. In 1998 he addressed a seminar onRabindranath Tagore at theUniversity of Connecticut and lectured atNew York University ,University of Illinois and Tufts. In addition, Dr Lal is Calcutta's leading theatre critic, writing a regular drama column and reviewing dramatic productions in The Telegraph. He was chosen Best Theatre Researcher, 2000 by theDrama Academy of India . Dr Lal's yearly departmental dramatic productions are keenly awaited events around which the student calendar to some extent revolves. Dr Lal is a member of the Publications Committee, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, a Committee Member of the Natya Shodh Sansthan, Kolkata, and an external examiner of the National University of Singapore.External links
* [http://www.jadavpur.edu/academics/arts_eng_academic_ananda.htm Jadavpur University]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/lal-ananda.html Doollee - The Playwrights Database]
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