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Can a playwright be a sage?
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It may not be
inappropriate for me to strike an autobiographical note, before I start this
column on theatre.
I joined Pondicherry
University as the Director of the Drama School on an invitation from the
dynamic and innovative first vicechancellor of the university, the late K. Venkatasubrahmanyan
in 1988. The Registrar and some members of the teaching staff expressed their
surprise that I accepted the post despite my three decades of academic
experience as a teacher of a real subject in a reputed university! Their
objection to ‘drama’ as one of the disciplines in the university curriculum was
that it was not ‘honourable’.