https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1458.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1458.html 2009-06-22T17:23:21Z text/html en Sohail Hashmi <p>TRIBUTE <br class='autobr' /> Habib Tanvir, 86, one of the country‘s greatest dramatists, passed away in Bhopal on June 8, 2009. He was instrumental in creating a new language in theatre blending contemporary drama with folk performance and raising folk forms to a level that could attract international attention. <br class='autobr' /> Born Habib Ahmed Khan in Raipur on September 1, 1923, he wrote poems at an early age under the name ‘Tanvir', a word that never left him. Among his seminal works were Agra Bazar, Charandas Chor, (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique101.html" rel="directory">June 2009</a>