उत्कृष्ट नेपाली नाटककार जो सिने जगतमा पनि उत्कृष्ट ठहरिए

Stage plays are literature performed live. They are performed also under an open sky or, since the 1920s, adapted to and presented on radio and television. Since the remotest era of the Himawatkhand region that covered much of South Asia and its periphery, many learned people termed life as but a drama in a dream. Nepal was the ambience for which great epics were composed in the hoary past. Scholars and men of wisdom arrived here to compose their ideas and feelings in verses. Scholars trekked to the “North”, i.e., the Himalayan laps for inspiration and soothing ambience in other parts of Nepal as well. And stage plays proved to one of the ideal avenues for performing arts, which attracted large audiences.

Staging plays at the precincts of palaces, public squares and town halls was a feature several millennia ago in South Asia, whose tradition was maintained with great enthusiasm till the earlier part of the 20^th century. The people on and behind the stage were amateurs or professionals. Bharat Muni’s voluminous Natyasastra describes and details what stage performance entails.  The meticulous manner in which the great author of the 3^rd century B.C. records the various aspects involved in preparing for, producing and presenting a play is breathtaking in both scope and dimension.

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