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Waman Kendre
Indian theatre director and academic
Waman Kendre is an Indian theatre director and academic. He has previously served as the Director of National School of Drama, (NSD) New Delhi from August to September He is married to Actress Gauri Kendre and also has a son[1]
Early years
[edit]He is the son of a farmer from Daradwadi village in Beed district of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
After his school and college, he completed a one-year proficiency certification course in Dramatics from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad and then was selected for a three-year course in the NSD.[2]
Career
[edit]At NSD, he earned a fellowship to research on ritualistic and folk theatre of Kerala. He remained active in theatre activities in Mumbai for many years. He is credited with playing a leading role in the Dalit theatre movement in late s Maharashtra.[3]
Kendre had a thirty-year teaching experience. He conducted more than two hundred and fifty workshops on varying aspects of theatre, in India and abroad. He was a Research Associate with the Theatre Development Centre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, for more than nine years. He was actively involved in administrative and organizational running o
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Take us back to your first day at NSD.
I was a very shy boy from a poor family. My father was a farmer,with a small piece of land in a very remote area of Maharashtra. Even now,there is no approach road to my village,Daradwadi in Beed district,and in the rainy season,my village is inaccessible. I had only a pair of trousers and one pyjama. Dilli pehli baar dekha (I saw Delhi for the first time). My interview had taken place in Baroda,I had been selected from there. When I came to NSD,I looked around and my first thought was,Such a beautiful place to learn something.
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I have taken part in progressive movements since my early days. We fought for rural and student issues. Since childhood,I had a leadership streak. In college,especially,I got involved with many progressive movements. We would meet the tehsildar,collector,nagaradhyaksha (mayor) to sort out problems; akaal para hua tha (there was a famine),there was no food and all the students were going back to their homes. They did not have jobs,their parents were poor. We would collect money and run a mess for t
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Indian playwright pin down Sanskrit
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Date
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