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About the Author J.P. Das's first play Before the Sunset appeared in the 1970s which was a glorious period of modern Indian drama, when playwrights writing in different languages were widely translated and staged all over the country and sense of a national Indian theatre was developing. Before the Sunset was first staged in its Bangla version in Hindi in Delhi directed by Ram Gopal Bajaj with Om Puri playing the lead. An English translation of the play was published in the theatre magazine Enact and translations into Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada and other languages followed to be staged in different parts of the country. Over the years the play has achieved the status of a classic. This volume brings together under one cover all the plays of J.P. Das which came out in their English versions at different times. The plays in this volume are very different from each other in characterisation and treatment. Each play stands its own ground a marker of some of the tensions that disturb the modern man and our contemporary society. This volume will bear testimony to the versatility of J.P. Das who is also a well-known poet, fiction-writer and essayist.