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"Habib Tanvir (1 September 1923 – 8 June 2009) was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He was the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975). A pioneer in Urdu and Hindi theatre, he was most known for his work with Chhattisgarhi tribals, at the Naya Theatre, a theatre company he founded in 1959 in Bhopal. He went on to include indigenous performance forms such as nacha, to create not only a new theatrical language, but also milestones such as Charandas Chor, Gaon ka Naam Sasural, Mor Naam Damad and Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna.Habib Tanvir makes his final exit The Times of India, 9 June 2009.Contemporary Theatre McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama, by Stanley Hochman, McGraw-Hill, inc. Published by Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG, 1984. . Page 42.Habib Tanvir The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama, by Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn. Columbia University Press, 2007. . Page 1330 For him, true "theatre of the people" existed in the villages, which he strived to bring to the urban "educated", employing both folk performers as actors alongside urban actors.Habib Tanvir Theatres of independence: drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947, by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. University of Iowa Press, 2005. . Page 115. He died on 8 June 2009 at Bhopal after a three-week-long illness.Noted playwright Habib Tanvir passes away at 85 Sify.com, 8 June 2009.Indian playwright Tanvir is dead BBC News, 9 June 2009. Upon his death, he was the last of pioneering actor-managers in Indian theatre, which included Sisir Bhaduri, Utpal Dutt and Prithviraj Kapoor,A Farewell To The Bard Of Bhopal Tehelka, Vol 6, Issue 24, Dated 20 June 2009. and often he managed plays with a mammoth cast, such as Charandas Chor, which included an orchestra of 72 people on stage and Agra Bazaar, with 52 people.Doyen holds forth The Hindu, 5 May 2007. During his lifetime he won several national and international awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1969, Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1979, Padma Shri in 1983, Kalidas Samman 1990, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1996, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002. Apart from that he had also been nominated to become a member of the Upper House of Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha (1972–1978). His play Charandas Chor (Charandas, The Thief) won him the Fringe Firsts Award at Edinburgh International Drama Festival in 1982,Naya Theatre and Habib Tanvir and in 2007, it was included in the Hindustan Times' list of 'India's 60 Best works since Independence which said : "an innovative dramaturgy equally impelled by Brecht and folk idioms, Habib Tanvir seduces across language barriers in this his all-time biggest hit about a Robin Hood-style thief."India's 60 best since Independence. 14 August 2007. Biography Early life He was born in Raipur, Chhattisgarh (erstwhile Madhya Pradesh) to Hafiz Ahmed Khan, who hailed from Peshawar. He passed his matriculation from Laurie Municipal High School, Raipur, and later completed his B.A. from Morris College, Nagpur in 1944. Thereafter he studied M.A. for a year at Aligarh Muslim University . Early in life, he started writing poetry using his pen name Takhallus. Soon after, he assumed his name, Habib Tanvir. Career Khalid Abidi, Prof. Desnavi Playwrighter Habib Tanvir. In 1945, he moved to Bombay, and joined All India Radio (AIR) Bombay as a producer. While in Bombay, he wrote songs for Urdu and Hindi films and even acted in a few of them. He also joined the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA) and became an integral part of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) as an actor. Later, when most of the prominent IPTA members were imprisoned for opposing the British rule, he was asked to take over the organisation. In 1954, he moved to New Delhi, and worked with Qudsia Zaidi's Hindustani Theatre, and also worked with Children's theatre, where he authored many plays. Later in the same year, he produced his first significant play Agra Bazar based on the works and times of the plebeian 18th-century Urdu poet, Nazir Akbarabadi, an older poet in the generation of Mirza Ghalib. For this play he brought together local residents and folk artistes from Okhla village in Delhi and students of Jamia Millia Islamia creating a palette never seen before in Indian theatre. Additionally, the play was not staged in a confined space, rather a bazaar, a marketplace. After this, he continued to work with non-trained actors and folk artistes like the folk artists of Chhattisgarh. Stay in Europe In 1955, when he was in his 30s, Habib moved to England. There, he trained in Acting at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) (1955) and in Direction at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (1956). For the next two years, he travelled through Europe, watching various theatre activities. One of the highlights of this period, was his eight-month stay in Berlin in 1956, during which he got to see several plays of Bertolt Brecht, produced by Berliner Ensemble, just a few months after Brecht's death.Habib Tanvir:samar, 2001 This proved to have a lasting influence on him, as in the coming years, he started using local idioms in his plays, to express trans-cultural tales and ideologies. This, over the years, gave rise to a "theatre of roots", which was marked by an utter simplicity in style, presentation and technique, yet remaining eloquent and powerfully experiential. Return to India A deeply inspired Habib returned to India in 1958 and took to directing full-time. He produced Mitti ki Gaadi a post-London play, based on Shudraka's Sanskrit work, Mrichakatika. It became his first important production in Chhattisgarhi. This was the result of the work he had been doing since his return – working with six folk actors from Chhattisgarh. He went on to found "Naya Theatre", a theatre company in 1959. In his exploratory phase, i.e. 1970–73, he broke free from one more theatre restriction – he no longer made the folk artistes, who had been performing in all his plays, speak Hindi. Instead, the artistes switched to Chhattisgarhi, a local language they were more accustomed to. Later, he even started experimenting with "Pandavani", a folk singing style from the region and temple rituals. This made his plays stand out amidst the gamut of plays which still employed traditional theatre techniques like blocking movements or fixing lights on paper. Spontaneity and improvisation became the hallmark of his new theatre style, where the folk artistes were allowed greater freedom of expression. His next venture with Chhattisgarhi Nach style, saw another breakthrough in 1972, with a staging of the play titled Gaon Ka Naam Sasural, Mor Naam Damaad. This was based on a comic folk tale, where an old man falls in love with a young woman, who eventually elopes with another young man.The Hindu, 2 January 2005 By the time he produced his seminal play, Charandas Chor in 1975, the technique became popular. This play immediately established a whole new idiom in modern India theatre; whose highlight was Nach – a chorus that provided commentary through song. He also brought in Govind Ram Nirmalkar, a noted Nacha artist who would later go on to win Padma Shri and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards, to play the lead role. Later, he collaborated with Shyam Benegal, when he adapted the play to a feature- length film, by the same name, starring Smita Patil and Lalu Ram. He was awarded the prestigious Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1979 for research on Relevance of Tribal Performing Arts and their Adaptability to A changing Environment. In 1980, he directed the play Moti Ram ka Satyagraha for Janam (Jan Natya Manch) on the request of Safdar Hashmi. During his career, Habib has acted in over nine feature films, including Richard Attenborough's film, Gandhi (1982), Black and White and in a yet-to-be-released film on the Bhopal gas tragedy. His first brush with controversy came about in the 1990s, with his production of a traditional Chhattisgarhi play about religious hypocrisy, Ponga Pandit. The play was based on a folk tale and had been created by Chhattisgarhi theatre artists in the 1930s. Though he had been producing it since the sixties, in the changed social climate after the Babri Masjid demolition, the play caused quiet an uproar amongst Hindu fundamentalists, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), whose supporters disrupted many of its shows, and even emptied the auditoriums, yet he continued to show it all over.Ponga Pandit controversy His Chhattisgarhi folk troupe, surprised again, with his rendition of Asghar Wajahat's Jisne Lahore Nahin Dekhya in 1992. Then in 1993 came Kamdeo Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna, Tanvir's Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.Traveling Shakespeares in India In 1995, he was invited to the United States by the Chicago Actors Ensemble, where he wrote his only English language play, The Broken Bridge. In 2002, he directed Zahareeli Hawa, a translation of Bhopal by the Canadian- Indian playwright Rahul Varma, based on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. During his illustrious career he brought works from all genres to stage, from ancient Sanskrit works by Shudraka, Bhasa, Vishakhadatta and Bhavabhuti; to European classics by Shakespeare, Molière and Goldoni; modern masters Brecht, Garcia, Lorca, Gorky, and Oscar Wilde; Tagore, Asghar Wajahat, Shankar Shesh, Safdar Hashmi, Rahul Varma, stories by Premchand, Stefan Zweig and Vijaydan Detha, apart from an array of Chhattisgarhi folk tales. Legacy In 2010, at the 12th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, the annual theatre festival of National School of Drama, Delhi, a tribute exhibition dedicated to life, works and theatre of Habib Tanvir and B.V. Karanth was displayed. The 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsav opened with an Assamese adaptation of his classic play Charandas Chor, directed by Anup Hazarika, a NSD graduate. Plays * Agra Bazar (1954) * Shatranj Ke Mohrey (1954) * Lala Shoharat Rai (1954) * Mitti Ki Gaadi (1958) * Gaon Ke Naon Sasural, Mor Naon Damand (1973) * Charandas Chor (1975) * Uttar Ram Charitra (1977) * Bahadur Kalarin (1978) * Ponga Pandit (1960s)Habib Tanvir's Aadmi Nama Business Standard, 9 June 2009. * Ek Aurat Hypathia Bhi Thee (1980s) * Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya (1990) * Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna (1993) * The Broken Bridge (1995) * Zahreeli Hawa (2002) * Raj Rakt (2006) * Kartoos (?) * Dekh Rahe Hai Nyan * Hirma Ki Amar Kahani * He also came up with his own versions of Basant Retu ka Sapna, Shajapur ki Shanti Bai, Mitti ki Gari and Mudrarakhsas. Filmography * Rahi (1952) - Ramu * Foot Path (1953) * Charandas Chor (1975) (lyrics and script) * Staying On (1980) (TV) - Dr. Mitra * Gandhi (1982) - Indian barrister * Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1986) (TV) - Bahadur * Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987) - Akhtar Baig * Hero Hiralal (1988) * Prahaar: The Final Attack (1991) - Joe D'Souza, father of Peter D'Souza * The Burning Season (1993) - Raja Sahib * Sardar (1993) * Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005) - Bahadur Shah Zafar * Black & White (2008)Habib Tanveer The New York Times. Quazi Saab (final film role) Bibliography * Rang Habib – Critical Appreciation of Habib Tanveer's Works, Written by Shri B. R. Bhargava, Published by National School of Drama, 2006 * Charandas Chor. Tr. by Anjum Katyal. Seagull Books, 1996. * Use of Music and Dance in Contemporary Dramatic Performances * The Buddhist Theatre of Tibet * The Living Tale of Hirma: Hirma Ki Amar Kahani. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2005. * Janam comes of Age by Habib Tanvir, 1988 Theatre of the streets: the Jana Natya Manch experience, by Arjun Ghosh, Jana Naṭya Mancha, edited by Sudhanva Deshpande. Published by Jana Natya Manch, 2007 * Gaon ke Naon Theatre, Mor Naon Habib (documentary film), dirs. Sanjay Maharishi and Sudhanva Deshpande, 2005 * One Day in the Life of Ponga Pandit (documentary film), dirs. Sanjay Maharishi and Sudhanva Deshpande, 2005 * Tanvir ka safarnama (documentary film), dir. Ranjan Kamath. 2008 Further reading * On the Theatre of Habib Tanvir The Dramatic touch of difference: theatre, own and foreign, by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Josephine Riley, Michael Gissenwehrer. Published by Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990 Page 221-233 See also * Theatre in India References External links * Habib Tanvir: Making of a Legend, Samar, 2001 * Super trouper : Habib Tanvir Remembering Habib Tanvir and his play Agra Bazar * Rahul Varma's Tribute to Habib Tanvir * Rahul Varma's newest play mentored by Habib Tanvir * Habib Tanvir materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) 1923 births 2009 deaths Indian Muslims Indian male dramatists and playwrights Indian theatre directors Indian male film actors Indian male stage actors Indian People's Theatre Association people Male actors from Chhattisgarh People from Raipur, Chhattisgarh Aligarh Muslim University alumni Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts Hindi theatre Hindi dramatists and playwrights Male actors in Hindi cinema Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows Dramatists and playwrights from Chhattisgarh 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Indian male actors Poets from Chhattisgarh "
"Charles Michael Bent was an English composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 27 November 1919 and died on 28 December 2004. Bent was the most prolific English endgame composer and one of the top ten in the world.Article by Harold van der Heijden in EG vol. 130. He published as many as 848 studies, winning seven first prizesFrom Harold van der Heijden's reference database. and 72 honours in international competitions. Beginning in 1975, he edited the British Chess Magazine monthly study column for ten years and contributed several articles to the EG quarterly study magazine. In 1993, together with Timothy Whitworth, he published a selection of 288 of his best endgame studies, entitled The Best of Bent. Bent received several awards in his lifetime. He was awarded the British Chess Federation President's Award, in recognition of his achievements in chess composition. The C. M. Bent Memorial Composing Tourney was held in 2006-07.Blog post by Dennis Monokroussos. Articles by C. M. Bent * "Symmetry". EG vol. 4, 1966. * "Some Aspects of Composing". EG vol. 12, 1968. * "Towards Perfection". EG vol. 18, 1969. * " 'All Right Then, So Black Makes a Queen...' ". EG vol. 21, 1970. * "Workshop". EG vol. 25, 1971. * "Mike Bent" BESN vol. 10 issue 1, 2005 References External links * British Chess Magazine 1919 births 2004 deaths British chess writers Chess composers 20th-century chess players "
"Collingwood Park is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Collingwood Park had a population of 7,104 people. Geography Collingwood Park, a residential suburb, is east of the Ipswich, next to the historic suburb of Redbank. Its eastern boundary is delineated by Goodna Creek and the western boundary by Six Mile Creek. Housing development began circa 1980 with the establishment of two HIA display villages. Redbank Plaza is large shopping mall, located on the northern boundary of the suburb. The main thoroughfare is Collingwood Drive which runs south from Redbank Plaza shopping centre. History The suburb was named and bounded on 28 August 1982. Throughout the 1980s, Collingwood Park was marketed as, "The Dress Circle Suburb of Ipswich". The suburb's name implied a "leafy" residential area which differentiated it from nearby Redbank, the site of several collieries and industries: a map, c1940, showed the area as devoid of any development apart from a perimeter road. Notable events which drew attention to the area included 13th Australian Scout Jamboree, 1982–83, the annual Collingwood Park fun run and the 1983 radio 4BK house giveaway and concert held on the site of the current state school. Collingwood Park State School opened on 28 January 1986. WoodLinks State School opened on 1 January 2011. At the Collingwood Park recorded a population of 6,622 people. In the , Collingwood Park had a population of 7,104 people. Education Woodlinks State School, 2016 Collingwood Park State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls on the corner of Burrel and Hannant Streets (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 558 students with 45 teachers (37 full-time equivalent) and 23 non-teaching staff (16 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. WoodLinks State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at WoodLinks Way (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 608 students with 41 teachers (38 full-time equivalent) and 28 non-teaching staff (18 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. There are no secondary schools in Collingwood Park. The nearest secondary schools are in Redbank Plains and Bellbird Park. Flora and fauna Collingwood Park and its surrounds are within the catchment area identified as the Six Mile, Woogaroo and Goodna Creek (SWAG). Over 1300 species of plants, including grass trees and hoop pines, and animals including reptiles, mammals, birds, fish and insects have been recorded in the SWAG Catchment area, with approximately 90% being native species. Exotic, or introduced, species include: blue billygoat weed, groundsel, Chinese elm, salvinia, lantana, camphor laurel, cane toad, spotted turtle dove, common myna, fox and hare. Some of the rare, endangered and vulnerable species recorded around Collingwood Park include: the Powerful owl (Ninox strenua), Black-chinned honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis), Glossy black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) and the Grey goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae). Transport Collingwood Park has on and off ramps to the M7 Ipswich Motorway going both east to Brisbane and west to Ipswich. The suburb has several regular Translink bus services. Less than away is Redbank railway station which is on the Ipswich train line. Governance Ipswich City Council operates a public library at Redbank Plaza. Jo Ann Miller – State Member for Bundamba, is the local member of State Parliament, and lives locally in Collingwood Park. Collingwood Park is in the Federal seat of Oxley. The local member is Bernie Ripoll. Parks and recreation Dodrill Park on Whitlam Drive, is named after a highly regarded local resident. Goupong Park on Namatjira Drive, Robert Anderson was a Ugarapul tribal man and was known by his tribal name "Goupong", meaning frog in the Ugarapul language. This was the language of the traditional people and custodians of the land known today as Ipswich. Robert Anderson was raised at the old Deebing Creek Mission Station and worked on many properties throughout Queensland as a young man. His athletic ability was recognised when he defeated world – record holder Arthur Postle of Pittsworth in a sprint on the Charters Towers goldfields in 1904. Many of his descendants still remain in the traditional country of this great Ugarapul man today. The Strike Monument commemorates The first strike in Queensland which took place at the Redbank Mine owned by Campbell and Towns. On 7 June 1861, a deputation of miners confronted Robert Campbell with demands including a pay rise of one shilling a ton. Campbell rejected the claims, the miners went on strike and were later arrested and tried for illegally conspiring to injure Campbell's interests. The jury found them not guilty. The park also has a skate/BMX bowl and other facilities, and is a popular recreational location for the young people of the suburb. Banjo Patterson Park on Laurie Drive, has barbecues, a cricket pitch for social matches, a half court basketball court, and a leash-free dog running area. Both Goupong and Banjo Patterson Park are popular venues for children's parties and other social gatherings. Bailey Street Reserve is a large, temporarily named council reserve which runs from Bailey street to Six Mile Creek. It covers an area which once contained an open cut coal mine. Where it meets the creek, there is a significant freshwater lagoon which is an important habitat for several species of water fowl and a number of other species have been classified as rare, endangered or vulnerable under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992 and Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 1994. References External links * Suburbs of Ipswich, Queensland 1982 establishments in Australia "