Laxminarayan Lal

Laxminarayan Lal was honored as the best playwright by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1977. He was awarded for literary contribution by the Sahitya Kala Parishad in 1979 and by the Hindi Academy in 1987.

Lal was directly associated with various aspects of Rangakarma. He was also a theatre director and actor. The first play he directed was the self-composed Mada Cactus. Apart from this, he also directed and acted in many other plays. The establishment of the institutions Natya Kendra (1958) in Allahabad and Samvad (1967) in Delhi is proof of their association with the totality of theatre. He taught drama subjects in colleges and also worked as a drama producer on All India Radio.

Lal composed about 35 full-length plays, many of which were also staged by well-known theatrical directors. He wrote his first play Andha Kuan in 1955. Since then, he not only continued to write plays but also ran a theater center in Allahabad, in which he offered both theatrical training and performance with very limited means.

Apart from being a playwright, and even before that, Laxminarayan Lal was also a storyteller and has authored a large number of novels. In 1951, his first novel Dharti Ki Aankhen was published. Then about a dozen of his novels were published. The background of these novels is often of middle-class civic life and sometimes even rural life. Various moods of love are also at the center of these novels. In these novels, there are realistic and poignant glimpses of life, at times the story of cultural struggle is told in the middle-class conflict, and occasionally there is a collision of new circumstances and orthodox ideals. The formulation of many new and old problems in changing contexts is not only extroverted - the inner feelings are also portrayed with humility. Along with the inclusion of folk life and folk elements in the style, symbolism has also been included.

Lakshminarayan Lal (1927–1987) was an Indian playwright, critic and a novelist who wrote in Hindi. He worked in many genres of literature but received fame as a playwright. His contributions as a reviewer were significant.

Laxminarayan Lal was born on March 4th, 1927 in Jalalpur, Basti district of Uttar Pradesh. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy. degree, with his thesis on the topic "Development of the craft method of Hindi stories." Lal grew up primarily as a playwright and had an affinity for drama and theatrics in his childhood. His childhood was spent in a rural environment. He was introduced at a very young age with folk dramas like Ramlila, Nautanki, Bidesia etc.