Madhu Rye is a Gujarati author. He was born in the name Madhusudan Vallabhdas Thaker in Jamkhambhalia town, Jamnagar district. The year was 1942. His father taught in Calcutta, where he grew up. Exposure to literary and theatrical circles there got him involved in writing and the stage, under Gujarati cultural figures like Shiv Kumar Joshi. His short stories and novels became a fad in the late 1960s. He moved to Ahmadabad, where he completed his first full-length play, Koipan ek phulnun nam bolo to or `Tell Me the Name of a Floiuer`. This was premiered in 1968 by Darpana. This play very cleverly used stagecraft to tell a metatheatrical murder mystery revolving around a young woman caught in her own imaginary myth. Rye grew popular with Kumarni agasi or Kumar`s `Terrace`. This one was translated as `The Terrace` in Pravin Joshi`s production. Terrace was staged at Indian National Theatre, exposing the repressed sexuality of the upper middle class and nouveau riche. His adaptation of Shaw`s Pygmalion as Santu rangili or `Enchanting Santu` in 1974 brought him national fame. He adapted his novels into drama, composed novels based on his plays, and wrote television scripts. He was instrumental in launching Akanth Sabarmati, a writers` workshop that led a movement against absurdist Gujarati theatre.
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