Ananda Lal

Ananda Lal is an Indian academic and theatre critic. He is the son of Purushottama Lal, founder of Writers Workshop, one of India’s oldest creative writing publishers, established in 1958. He is a former Professor of English and Coordinator, Rabindranath Tagore Studies Centre (UGC), at Jadavpur University, Calcutta and has now retired from active service. He is currently writing for Kolkata Theatre . He currently heads Writers Workshop, translates from Bengali to English, is a theatre critic for The Times of India (Calcutta). While he was a professor at Jadavpur, he regularly directed plays for the Department of English with students in the cast and crew.

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