ABSTRACT
During the period under review, India celebrated her fiftieth year of independence. The chapter have record once more that the basic realities of the Indian theatre scene have not changed. Mahesh Datammi's Final Solution, an English original translated into Hindi, shuttled back and forth in time to attempt an explanation of the origins of the communal divide that led to the partition of India, and creation of Pakistan, 50 years ago. Ajit Dalvi, in his intense play Gandhi Versus Gandhi, looked at the tension in the personal life of Mahatma Gandhi, who led the freedom movement in India. Rudalis are female mourners in certain parts of feudal India, who are customarily called upon by landowners to mourn and bewail the death of their dear ones. The first was a production of Euripides' Greek classic The Trojan Women presented by a group of college students as part of an awareness campaign regarding the devastation of war.
