In search of a theatre

Though the ancient cultural grammarians of the Tamil language included theatre as one of the intrinsic aspects of ‘Muttamizh’, many of us in Tamil Nadu, especially in the capital city, are inclined to treat ‘theatre’ as the poor cousin of the other two, namely, music and dance. Even during the ‘cultural explosion’ that takes place in December and January, the few ‘popular’ plays performed then are not given prime time but relegated to the morning session by the sabhas that conduct these festivals.

As such, how many of us would know that a young playwrightdirector from Tamil Nadu, was the first Tamil to win the Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for playwriting for 2011 at the all-India level?