Patthar Ka Thekedar Evam Anya Kahaniyan Short Stories By Lalit Mohan Thapliyal

Patthar Ka Thekedar Evam Anya Kahaniyan

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“Patthar Ka Thekedar Evam Anya Kahaniyan” is a collection of awarded short stories written by famous dramatist Lalit Mohan Thapliyal. These short stories are written in the time span of past 7 decades and has the mixture of every aspect of human behaviour, nature and relation, but involves a rich attraction in itself. Stories like “Radhuli ki Diwali”, “Kalyani” were awarded in competitions. Many of these stories were already published in leading newspapers and weeklies.

Note : Serious theatre groups are welcome to perform the plays in these publications. However, they are requested to seek permission from the Sadhana Sanskriti Pratishtan and to pay a small royalty according to their means.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lalit Mohan Thapliyal was a well known Garhwali and Hindi playwright, actor, and director whose career spanned six decades. His works include 9 full length plays, 30 one-act plays, including plays for children of various age groups, and 4 dance dramas. A journalist by profession, he worked with leading papers including the National Herald and the Hindustan Times and then with the Public Information Division of the WHO. He was awarded the Jaishree Samman by the Garhwali Bhasha Parishad, Dehradun in 1986. He received the Children’s Book Trust award for drama in a children’s literature competition for The Magic Island, in 1988. His play Chimtewale Baba won the Sahitya Kala Parishad Delhi All-India Playwriting Competition (1988-89). He was awarded the Mohan Rakesh Samman in 1996 for Panne ki Angoothi.

Wherever he lived his love of theatre stayed with him and he continued to write and direct his plays. In the late 1970s he established a Hindi language theatre group in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was posted. He returned to India in 1983 after his retirement from the WHO and for the next 21 years devoted himself to theatre full time. He established the Sadhana Sanskriti Pratishthan, a trust devoted to raising the quality of community life by raising cultural awareness. He believed that theatre was a very important educational tool and organized annual summer workshops for children, all gratis. Every year he directed and produced 4 to 5 plays with his theatre group, the Sadhana Natya Kala Kendra.