Badal Sircar (1925-2011), whose real name was Sudhindra Sarkar, was an Indian playwright and theatre director. He studied at the Scottish Church College and Bengal Engineering College before completing a postgraduate degree in literature at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University. Influenced by expressionism and realism, Sircar created the Third Theatre movement, which aimed to make communication with the audience more direct. His innovations included presenting his plays in outdoor or public spaces and removing unnecessary lighting, make-up and costumes. He became a pioneering figure in Indian theatre, focussing on social inequality and expressing his ideological opposition to the way the state treated its citizens in more than fifty plays. Finally, he founded a touring company that took his experimental approach to rural areas.

 

A short list of his plays:
Procession, Bhoma, Stale news, Indian history made easy, Life of Bagala.

 

There's heaven for you after you die, and heavenly happiness. (Procession)