CONTENTS EDITOR'S NOTE3 Theatre Personalities ADYA RANGACHARYA 5 Shashi Deshpande A TRIBUTE TO ADYA RANGACHARYA 12 Ram Gopal Bajaj SRIRANGA CENTENARY SEMINAR AND THEATRE FESTIVAL 14 A Report by Laxmi Chandrashekar G SANKARA PILLAI AND THE QUEST FOR A NATIONAL THEATRE 27 Ayyappa Paniker Critical Studies NOTES TOWARDS A RE-READING OF NATYASHASTRA 34 G P Deshpande THE PEACOCK'S EGG : FOLLOWING SOME OF THE RESONANCES IN ABHIJNANA SHAKUNTALAM 48 H S Shivaprakash Contemporary Theatre Practice THEATRE TRAINING IN INDIA 55 Kirti Jain DELHI'S AMATEUR THEATRE : WILL IT WEATHER THE STORM OR WITHER? 64 Manohar Khushalani PETER SCHUMANN AND THE BREAD AND PUPPET THEATRE : AN INDIAN EXPERIENCE 1C. S Raghunandana CONFERENCE ON MAKING SPACE FOR THEATRE A Report by Keval Arora Play KALLURUTTY 98 A play by Kavalam Narayana Panikkar istitutions 1..3 SANGEET NATAK AKADEMI AND THE INDIAN THEATRE 131 Chaman Ahuja INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THEATRE : SANGEET NATAK AKADEM'S GOLDEN JUBILEE Javed Malick Comment Jook Review WHITHER THEATRE INDIA? 145 Chaman Ahuja A REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY-A BIBLE, A MODEL Chaman Ahuja