Art and Culture

Ratan Thiyam

Ratan Thiyam appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. His term will be of 4 years. Ratan Thiyam is an Indian playwright and theatre director, and the winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987, one of leading figures of the "theatre of roots" movement in Indian theatre, which started in 1970s.

He is a painter-playwright-actor-director by profession, and the founder director of Chorus Repertory Theatre in Imphal. He is the theatre director of some of the renowned plays such as Chakravyuh and Urubhangam

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