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Wanted: A national policy on theatre, art
- NSD chairman Ratan Thiyam praises the rise of regional theatre in spite of constraints
The Telegraph | Ranju Dodum | Doimukh, Oct. 8:
Veteran theatre personality Ratan Thiyam has slammed the lack of an art and culture policy in the country. Expressing dismay over the current state of affairs of theatre in India, he said yesterday, “Tribal and folk art forms have not been given attention.”
The Padmashri from Manipur and National School of Drama (NSD) chairman called for inclusion of theatre in syllabuses of schools and universities. Thiyam was delivering the first Bhupen Hazarika Memorial Lecture at the Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here, organised in collaboration with Gauhati University.
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