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'''Kailash Pandya''' (1923 – 24 December 2007) was an Indian theatre artist and winner of several national awards in India. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Pandya was born in [[Bhavnagar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]. He was active with the [[Indian People’s Theatre Association]], Mumbai from 1943 to 1948.<ref>{{Citation |last=Lal |first=Ananda |title=Pandya, Kailash |date=2004 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195644463.001.0001/acref-9780195644463-e-0460 |work=The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre |access-date=2023-09-28 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195644463.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-564446-3|url-access=subscription }}</ref> From 1949 to 1957, he worked with [[Jaishankar Bhojak]] (AKA Jaishankar Sundari) at Nat Mandal, Ahmedabad. In 1958 he attended the Asian Theatre Institute in Delhi (which later grew into the [[National School of Drama]]). He also learned [[Kathakali]] from [[Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair|Guru Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair]], and [[Bhavai]], a popular folk theatre form from Gujarat, from [[Guru Chimanlal Nayak]].<br />
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He headed the Theatre Department of [[Mrinalini Sarabhai]]’s [[Darpana Academy of Performing Arts]], [[Ahmedabad]] from 1959 until he died in 2007.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lynton |first=Harriet Ronken |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iPK00HesY8C&q=kailash+pandya+darpana&pg=PA141 |title=Born to Dance |date=1995 |publisher=Orient Longman |isbn=978-81-250-0268-0 |language=en}}</ref> During his career, Kailash produced a variety of Indian and Western plays by [[Bhasa]], [[Nikolai Gogol]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], [[Rabindranath Tagore]] and [[Vijay Tendulkar]]. He was deeply interested in folk theatre and experimented with Bhavai in some of his productions. Kailash also worked with theatre veterans like [[Dina Pathak]] and [[Chandravadan Mehta]]. In 1983, he received the Gujarat Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] Award in 1993 for Direction. Kailash also frequented theatre seminars and workshops in India and abroad such as the ones at the University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts, Redlands University, and [[Pomona College]], Claremont. Pomona College invited him to direct a Sanskrit production of [[Mṛcchakatika]] in classical [[Natyashastra]] in 1994.<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite book |last=Lynton |first=H. Ronken |title=Born to Dance |publisher=Orient Longman, Hyderabad |year=1995 |isbn=978-0863115479 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iPK00HesY8C&q=kailash+pandya+darpana&pg=PA141 |ref=Br}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Usmani |first=Zeeshan-ul-Hassan |title=Beyond Boundaries: Reflections of Indian and U.S. Scholars |publisher=iUniverse |year=2007 |isbn=978-0595436446 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8RgFGu9PH-cC&q=kailash+pandya+darpana&pg=PA442 |ref=Br}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Gujarati Vishwakosh}}<br />
*[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16021944?selectedversion=NBD24001793- 1994, English, Video edition:Taking a ride on the Clay Cart]<br />
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