Theatre Director Bansi Kaul Passed Away

Noted theatre director Bansi Kaul has passed away.
Born in 1949 in a Kashmiri Pandit family, Kaul began his career as a director with NSD Repertory Company after graduating from National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi in 1973.
Kaul was a part of the faculty of school for many years before forming ‘Rang Vidushak’, his own theatre institute in Bhopal in 1984.
In 1995, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and in 2014 Kaul was honoured with the prestigious Padma Shri. Kaul also a recipient of the Rashtriya Kalidas Samman for the year 2016–17 given by the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh.