Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi
Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi[1] is an eminent theatre personality and professor emeritus of BHU Varanasi.The name of Tripathi is synonymous with the Sanskrit theatre tradition and aesthetics of India. His interest and expertise spreads from Kutiyattam tradition to Ankiya Nat of Assam, aesthetics. He has given immense contribution to the contemporary practice of classical Sanskrit texts in his tenure as the Chairman of Kalidasa Academy Ujjain. He had associated with great Natyasastra scholar and Kutiyattam actor Natyacharya Mani Madhava Chakyar. He was equally instrumental in understanding and performing the plays by Kalidasa and Bhasa. His writings and translations into Hindi of plays like Balacharita was important in understanding the dramaturgy of Bhasa in the modern context.
Prof Kamalesh Dutta Tripathi is regarded to be an authority on Natya Shastra, the famous Indian treatise on theatre, in terms of its philosophy, aesthetics and techniques and its application in the present context.