AWARDS

AWARDS:
1969 Delhi Sangeet Natak Academy drama Award
1973 Shikhar samman for drama, M.P. Govt. Bhpoal
1972-1978 nominated member of parliament- Upper House
1980 Visiting professor jamia millia University New Delhi
1982-1984 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow Near Dehli
1982 Fringe Firsts Award for his play ‘charna das chor’ al Edinburgh International Drama
Festival U.K.
1982 D.Lit. Indira Music University Khairagath, Chhattisgarh
1982 Padma shree national Award Govt. of India Delhi
1983 Academy of Arts and Literature Award Delhi Administration
1982-1985 Visiting Professor pandit sundarlal shrma chair, Ravi Shankar University Raipur
C.G.
1985 Nandikar Award for Drama, Kolkata
1986 Visiting Professor M.S. University Baroda, Gujrat
1990 Kalidas Drama Award Govt. of M.P. Bhopal
1995 D.lit. Rabindra Bharti University Kolkata
2000 Maharashtra Urdu Academy Award Mumbai for play and poetry
2001 Aditya Vikram Birla kala shikhar Award Mumbai for literature
2002 Bhavabhuti Hindi Sahitya Sangh Award Bhopal for literature Bhopla M.P.
2002 Padma Bhushan National Award Govt. of India, Delhi
2002-2003 Visiting Professor Shamman Mitra Chair National School of Drama New Delhi
2002 Chakradhar Samman Chhattisgagh Govt., C.G.
2003 D.Lit. Vidyasagar University Midnapur W.B.
2003 D.Lit Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur Chhattisgarh
2006 National research Professor Award Govt. of India, Delhi
2006 Officer of the order of Arts & Latters, Ministry of culture Arts Letters &
Communication, French Republic, Paris

They represent an absolute extreme of purity

“They represent an absolute extreme of purity: a peasant company directed by a highly sophisticated man who brings them up to town taken every conceivable to prevent the town from contaminating them. They go back to their villages tat harvest tine. They speak their local hindi patois … it’s pop art, using the vocabulary of natural fun, and on that sense the naya shows could be from anywhere. But there’s something about this part of India that makes then very talented. They’re born actors. What they produce together is an enormous variety of stories that they tell completely on their own terms: not only village fables, but bits of Brecht and ‘The Bourgeois Gentihomme’ with no apparent difference. From folk tales to Moliere it’s all one seamless movement deriving from their experience of life. There’s no halfway house between the local root and the foreign style.”
PETER BROOK in THE LONDON TIMES