Death[edit source | editbeta] Sarkar was diagnosed with colon cancer in April 2011.

He died on 13 May at Kolkata at the age of 85. Awards and recognition[edit source | editbeta] Sarkar was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1972, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1968 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship- Ratna Sadsya, the highest honour in the performing arts by Govt. of India, in 1997, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. The "Tendulkar Mahotsav" held at the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), Pune in October 2005, organised by director Amol Palekar to honour playwright Vijay Tendular, was inaugurated with the release of a DVD and a book on the life of Badal Sircar.[17] In July 2009, to mark his 85th birthday, a five-day long festival titled Badal Utsava as tribute to him was organized by several noted theatre directors.[18] He was offered the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2010, which he declined, stating that he is already a Sahitya Akademi Fellow, which is the biggest recognition for a writer.[19] In media[edit source | editbeta] Sarkar is the subject of two documentaries, one directed by filmmaker and critic, Amshan Kumar,[20] and another A Face in the Procession by Sudeb Sinha, which was shot over two years. Legacy[edit source | editbeta] Badal Sircar influenced a number of film directors, theater directors as well as writers of his time. Film director Mira Nair in an interview mentioned, "For me, Kolkata was a formative city while growing up.... I learned to play cricket in Kolkata, but more than anything, I learned to read Badal Sircar and watch plays written by him for street theatre. " [21] To Kannada director and playwright, Girish Karnad, Sircars play Ebong Indrajit taught him fluidity between scenes, while as per theare director-playwright Satyadev Dubey, "In every play Ive written and in every situation created, Indrajit dominates." To Actor-director Amol Palekar, "Badalda opened up new ways of expression."[22] Recently (2013), a newly established cultural group, Maniktala Kolpokatha has started their theatrical career paying homage to the great play writer, staging "Ballavpurer Roopkatha". To the group, it is one of the plays that is not often staged in the Kolkata Theatre Circuit, and has all the spices of love, laughter and fear. List of plays[edit source | editbeta] Ebang Indrajit (And Indrajit) (1963) Basi Khabar Baaki Itihaash (Remaining History) (1965) Pralap (Delirium) (1966) Tringsha Shatabdi (Thirtieth Century) (1966)

Pagla Ghoda (Mad Horse) (1967) Shesh Naai (There's No End) (1969) Spartacus Prastava Juloos (Procession) Bhoma Solution X Baropishima Saari Raat Badi buaji Kavi Kahini Manushe Manushe Michhil Hottomalar oparey Bollovpurer rupkatha Sukhapathya bharoter itihash (Indian History Made Easy) Works[edit source | editbeta] The Third Theatre. Pub. Sircar, 1978 The changing language of Theatre (Azad memorial lectures). Pub. Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), 1982. Plays in translation[edit source | editbeta] Evam Indrajit: Three-act Play. tr. by Girish Karnad. Oxford University Press. 1975. ISBN 0-19-560312-5. Three plays : Procession, Bhoma, Stale news. tr. by Samik Bandyopadhyay. Seagull. 1983. Beyond the Land of Hattamala & Scandal in Fairyland. tr. by Suchanda Sarkar. Seagull Books, 2003 . ISBN 81-7046-091-3. Two Plays: Indian History Made Easy, Life of Bagala, tr. by Subhendu Sarkar. OUP, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-806549-4. See also[edit source | editbeta] Theatre in India References[edit source | editbeta] ^ a b "A world full of phoneys". Live Mint. Feb 3 2010. ^ a b "When all the world was onstage". Indian Express. Aug 30, 2004. ^ "A tribute to Badal Sircar". The Times of India. Jul 19, 2009. ^ "Drama of the Indian theatre journey". Financial Express. 2006-09-17. ^ "Drama between the lines". Financial Express. Jan 28, 2007. ^ Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi website. ^ Mustard memories: Stage On & Off The Telegraph. ^ Badal Sircar Profile at Indiaprofile ^ Dharwadker, Aparna Bhargava (2005). Theatres of independence: drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947. University of Iowa Press. p. 70. ISBN 0-87745961-4. ^ a b Cody, Gabrielle H.; Evert Sprinchorn (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Volume 2. Columbia University Press. p. 1248. ISBN 0-231-14424-5.

^ Richmond, Farley P.; Darius L. Swann, Phillip B. Zarrilli (1993). "Experimental". Indian theatre: traditions of performance. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 399. ISBN 81-2080981-5. ^ Brandon, James R.; Martin Banham (1997). The Cambridge guide to Asian theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 76. ISBN 0-521-58822-7. ^ a b "When all the world was onstage". Indian Express. Aug 30, 2004. ^ "A tribute to Badal Sircar". The Times of India. Jul 19, 2009. ^ "Drama of the Indian theatre journey". Financial Express. 2006-09-17. ^ "Drama between the lines". Financial Express. Jan 28, 2007. ^ Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi website. ^ Mustard memories: Stage On & Off The Telegraph. ^ Badal Sircar Profile at Indiaprofile ^ Dharwadker, Aparna Bhargava (2005). Theatres of independence: drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947. University of Iowa Press. p. 70. ISBN 0-87745961-4. ^ a b Cody, Gabrielle H.; Evert Sprinchorn (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Volume 2. Columbia University Press. p. 1248. ISBN 0-231-14424-5. ^ Richmond, Farley P.; Darius L. Swann, Phillip B. Zarrilli (1993). "Experimental". Indian theatre: traditions of performance. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 399. ISBN 81-2080981-5. ^ Brandon, James R.; Martin Banham (1997). The Cambridge guide to Asian theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 76. ISBN 0-521-58822-7. ^ Rubin, Don; Chua Soo Pong, Ravi Chaturvedi (2001). World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific, Volume 3. Taylor & Francis. p. 148. ISBN 0-41526087-6. ^ Tandon, Neeru (2006). "Badal Sircar". Perspectives and challenges in Indian-English drama. Atlantic Publishers. p. 94. ISBN 81-269-0655-3. ^ Subramanyam, Lakshmi (2002). "The Third Gaze: The Theatre of Badal Sircar". Muffled voices: women in modern Indian theatre. Har-Anand Publications. p. 61. ISBN 81-241-0870-6. ^ "At 86, Badal Sircar frenziedly writes, reads plays". siliconindia.com. 12 March 2011. ^ "He moulded Nihalani, Dubey, Palekar and Deshpande". Indian Express. October 04, 2005. ^ "A tribute to Badal Sircar". The Times of India. Jul 19, 2009. ^ "Look who declined Padma Bhushan this year: two giants of art, literature". Indian Express. Feb 09 2010. ^ "Charmed by celluloid". The Hindu. March 3, 2011. ^ "Why Rani, Abhishek lost out on Namesake". March 23, 2007. Rediff.com Movies. ^ "Badal rises once more". Mint (newspaper). Mar 11 2011. Further reading[edit source | editbeta] Roy, Pinaki. The First Man of the Third Theatre: Badal Sircar. Insights into Indian English Fiction and Drama. Ed. Nawale, A. New Delhi: Access-Authors Press, 2012 (ISBN 978-81-921254-3-5), pp. 16481. Roy, Pinaki. Crusader against Hegemonies: A Brief Study of Badal Sircar. Contemporary Indian Drama in English: Trends and Issues. Ed. Sarkar, J. New Delhi: Delta Book World, 2013 (ISBN 978-81-926244-0-2). Pp. 23-42.

External links[edit source | editbeta] Badal Sircar's "Evam Indrajit" as a Play in the Absurdist Tradition A docudrama about and involving Badal Sarkar made in 2008 Documented material on Badal Sircar: Natarang Pratishthan