Mudra Rakshasa

Born in 1931 in Behta near Lucknow, Shri Mudra Rakshasa took his Master’s degree from Lucknow University and was then employed as Assistant Editor of Gyanodaya, published from Calcutta from 1955 to 1958. He was Editor of Anuvrata, also a Calcutta publication, between 1959 and 1961. He worked as Editor, Scripts, at All India Radio from 1962 to 1976. Shri Mudra Rakshasa’s first mentor in the dramatic arts was his father Shivcharan Lal ‘Prem’, a well-known performer of the popular …