Editor G.P. Deshpande Managing Editor & Treasurer | Contents Romi Khosia Associate Editors Vivan Sundaram Kumkum Sangari Contributing Editors • Theatre Prasanna Visual Arts 5 Thinking About Tradition: Geeta Kapur Literature The Ramlila at Ramnagar Malini Bhattacharya U]Anuradha Kapur Music Neela Bhagwat • Films Ashish Rajadhyaksha Book Reviews 33 Preparing for Krishna Anil Bhatti [3Rustom Bharucha Advisory Editors • Saeed Akhtar Mirza Mihir Bhattacharya M.S. Sathyu 59 Brecht in Hindi: The Poetics Sudhir Patwardhan Kalpana Sahni of Response P. Govinda Pillai GVasudha Dalmia-Luderitz M.S. Prabhakara Asad Zaidi • Madan Gopal Singh Rajendra Prasad Anuradha Kapur 73 Living the Tradition Arun Khopkar Chanchal Chauhan D Ashish Rajadhyaksha Indira Chandrasekhar Correspondence Indira Chandrasekhar 5/27SarvapriyaVihar New Delhi 110 016 Phone: 6862924 Published by Tulika Print Communi- cation Services, for G.P. Deshpande Printed at Pauls Press E 44/11 Okhia Industrial Area, Phase II, New Delhi 110 020 ^ARTS^DEASJ NUMBER 16 January-March 1988