HS Shivaprakash

Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU (2001–2019), award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, and critic, writing in Kannada and English, he is a multifaceted scholar.

He became closely associated with Sabitri and Kanhailal during the finalization of another book on their theatre, and from thence germinated the idea of writing about Sabitri’s contribution to Sabitri-Kanhailal productions and Manipuri theatre.