Ananda Lal

Who is Ananda Lal?

Ananda Lal is an Indian academic and theatre critic. He is the son of P. Lal, founder of Writers Workshop, one of India's oldest creative writing publishers, established in 1958. He is Professor of English and Coordinator, Rabindranath Tagore Studies Centre, at the Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He also heads Writers Workshop now, translates from Bengali to English, is a theatre critic for The Telegraph and directs university theatre

His books include the "Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre", "Rabindranath Tagore: Three Plays", "Theatres of India", "Twist in the Folktale", "Shakespeare on the Calcutta Stage" and "Rasa: The Indian Performing Arts".