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Award for Gujarati playwright

BANGALORE: Saroop Dhruv, Gujarati playwright, poet and social activist, has received the 2008 Hellman/Hammett Award for courageous writing, which is given by Human Rights Watch. She is a member of Women’s WORLD (India), a national network of over 200 women writers dealing with censorship.

Ms. Dhruv has also been involved in popular street theatre and since the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 has been particularly active in protesting against communalism. — Staff Reporter

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