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Vijay Padaki

Vijay Padaki is a Theatre Educator based in Bangalore. He has worn two caps all his life with equal facility. He has been active in the theatre for over sixty years. He has been a management professional for over forty-five years. Vijay joined Bangalore Little Theatre in 1960, the year of its inception, and later served the company in many capacities – as actor, director, trainer, writer, designer and administrator. In 2008, Bangalore Little Theatre Foundation was restructured as a Public Charitable Trust. It was done with the purpose of reinforcing the organisation’s commitment to social Read More...

Vijay joined Bangalore Little Theatre in 1960, the year of its inception, and later served the company in many capacities – as actor, director, trainer, writer, designer and administrator. In 2008, Bangalore Little Theatre Foundation was restructured as a Public Charitable Trust. It was done with the purpose of reinforcing the organisation’s commitment to social development goals beyond performance. The Trust requested Vijay to provide the leadership to a newly-created Academy of Theatre Arts in its formative years.

Vijay has been responsible for institutionalizing several activities of BLT, such as the annual summer workshop for newcomers to the theatre (SPOT), from which has emerged a large number of the theatre personalities in Bangalore, the History of Ideas programme of biographical plays, the Courtyard Theatre programme, and the Children’s Theatre programme, which includes the annual flagship children’s play as a partnership production to support a charity. Vijay conceived and initiated programmes for training trainers, training Directors and promoting new writing for the stage. He has forged several international partnerships with BLT over the years. The Ministry of Culture invited Vijay to initiate a programme of Arts and Heritage Management in India.

Vijay has been a writer for many years. In addition to over 50 original plays published by Bangalore Little Theatre, he diversified into writing short stories. There are over 40 stories by him. He has done several readings of his stories in public spaces. Notion is publishing the first 34 stories in two volumes. Vijay believes that all writing is autobiographical. (To greater or lesser extent!) What that means is that life experiences have a way of creeping into everything we say. In other words, there is no need to deny it or be sorry about it. He says he has had the good fortune of exposures in life that had both breadth and depth. These included field experiences as part of his work in large development programmes in rural settings.

Vijay is a psychologist and behavioural scientist by training, and founder-director of a management resource centre with programmes of research, consulting and training in the areas of Organisation and Institutional Development. A good part of his work was devoted to the effectiveness of large development programmes. Among his earlier assignments he was a member of the founding faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, the founder of a Centre for Management for the textile industry in Ahmedabad, and a Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was a Senior Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in its early years.

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The Last Cheetah and Other Stories

Books by Vijay Padaki

A JOY RIDE!

The stories in the two volumes are packed with a wide variety of plots and a charming range of characters. They combine intriguing content with witty narration. There is the house maid with a pair of exquisite gold anklets; a policeman who befriends a house servant accused of a petty crime; the nineteenth century bungalow with a spirit hidden in its walls; the tigress falling in love with a handsome man; the mother of a man h

The First Offering and Other Stories

Books by Vijay Padaki

A JOY RIDE!

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Vijay Padaki is a Theatre Educator based in Bangalore. He has worn two caps all his life with equal facility. He has been active in the theatre for over sixty years. He has been a management professional for over forty-five years.
Vijay joined Bangalore Little Theatre in 1960, the year of its inception, and later served the company in many capacities – as actor, director, trainer, writer, designer and administrator. In 2008, Bangalore Little Theatre Foundation was restructured as a Public Charitable Trust. It was done with the purpose of reinforcing the organisation’s commitment to social development goals beyond performance. The Trust requested Vijay to provide the leadership to a newly-created Academy of Theatre Arts in its formative years.
Vijay has been responsible for institutionalizing several activities of BLT, such as the annual summer workshop for newcomers to the theatre (SPOT), from which has emerged a large number of the theatre personalities in Bangalore, the History of Ideas programme of biographical plays, the Courtyard Theatre programme, and the Children’s Theatre programme, which includes the annual flagship children’s play as a partnership production to support a charity. Vijay conceived and initiated programmes for training trainers, training Directors and promoting new writing for the stage. He has forged several international partnerships with BLT over the years. The Ministry of Culture invited Vijay to initiate a programme of Arts and Heritage Management in India.
Vijay has been a writer for many years. In addition to over 50 original plays published by Bangalore Little Theatre, he diversified into writing short stories. There are over 40 stories by him. He has done several readings of his stories in public spaces. Notion is publishing the first 34 stories in two volumes. Vijay believes that all writing is autobiographical. (To greater or lesser extent!) What that means is that life experiences have a way of creeping into everything we say. In other words, there is no need to deny it or be sorry about it. He says he has had the good fortune of exposures in life that had both breadth and depth. These included field experiences as part of his work in large development programmes in rural settings.
Vijay is a psychologist and behavioural scientist by training, and founder-director of a management resource centre with programmes of research, consulting and training in the areas of Organisation and Institutional Development. A good part of his work was devoted to the effectiveness of large development programmes. Among his earlier assignments he was a member of the founding faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, the founder of a Centre for Management for the textile industry in Ahmedabad, and a Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was a Senior Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in its early years.

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The Last Cheetah and Other Stories

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The First Offering and Other Stories

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