Anupama Chandrasekhar

In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot: play about ‘queer ageing and capitalism’ wins prize

Sarah Mantell’s script awarded Susan Smith Blackburn prize, beating plays by Zadie Smith, Kimber Lee and Ruby Thomas

Chris Wiegand

27, Mar, 2023 @11:45 PM

The Father and the Assassin review – gripping tale of the man who killed Gandhi

Anupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today

Claire Armitstead

20, May, 2022 @9:36 AM

The celebrated assassin: the play about Gandhi’s killer, still dividing India

Having written about sex tapes and the Delhi bus gang-rape, Anupama Chandrasekhar is tackling Nathuram Godse, the gunman who was raised as a girl – and is now a hero to Hindu nationalists

Ammar Kalia

16, May, 2022 @7:00 AM

Sex tapes and acid attacks: Anupama Chandrasekhar, the playwright shocking India

Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012

Arifa Akbar

28, Oct, 2019 @4:38 PM