• Saurabh Kumar
• Dr. Babina Bohra

Badal Sircar is a leading dramatist of modern Indian drama. The exponent of absurd drama in Indian theatre, Sircar, started his career as a dramatist with his comedy Solution X (1956). His plays fall under three categories: a) the comedies, b) the serious and absurdist social plays and c) the plays written for ‘Third Theatre’. In the interest of promoting his innovative idea to come closer with the folk community, he formed a new form of theatre called ‘Third Theatre’. This form is a concoction of the folk and Proscenium theatre. Modern and contemporary urban Indian theatres, however, continue to be largely excluded from the circuits of Western scholarship and performance. In Indian theatre criticism, modernity and the modern have proved to be problematic for other reasons. Even if we consider only the criticism written and published in English since the 1920s (which represents a small fraction of the total body of Indian criticism on drama, theatre, and performance), until quite recently, there has been no clear historicization or periodization of the modern, and very little discursive engagement with the paradoxes and ambivalences of Indian modernity across the colonial/postcolonial divide.

Folk, Criticism, Theatre, Modernity

"MODERNITY AND TRADITION IN INDIAN THEATRE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.967-973, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U24.pdf

"MODERNITY AND TRADITION IN INDIAN THEATRE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp967-973, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U24.pdf