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| Dewan Lilaramsingh Dewan Lilaramsingh Another dramatist whose plays
were performed by the above-mentioned Sind CollegeDramatic Society was
Dewan Lilaram-Singh, who wrote two original plays on widow remarriage
and other social themes : Soorjan-Radha (1895) and Mohan-Tarka. He
collaborated with his brother Lokumal in adapting two plays from the "
Mahabharata " : Harishchander (1894) and Draupadi (1905), and also
dramatized Ramayana (1898) in two parts. His style is a happy compound
of simple Sanskrit and Sindhi phraseology as befits his subjects.
Lilaramsingh was also a poet of no mean order who wrote under the pen-name of " Khaki " and published his Dewan Khaki, as already recorded under the poetry section. |