Niranjan Goswami is an Indian

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and stage director, credited by many with pioneering the art form of

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in India. He is the founder of ''Indian Mime Theatre'', a group promoting the art of ''Mukhabhinaya'' (silent acting).

Career

He started his career in the late 1960s with ''Bahurupi'', a local theatre group, but later joined

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for a course in theatre. In 1976, he founded ''Indian Mime Theatre'' for promoting mime and has performed on many stages in India and abroad. He is a visiting professor at the

National School of Drama National School of Drama (NSD) is a theatre training institute situated at New Delhi, India. It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was set up in 1959 by the Sangeet Natak Akademi and became an indepe ...

(NSD) and many other theatre institutions. He received the

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (IPA: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi Sangeet Natak Akademi (The National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama in Englis ...

in 2002. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the

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, in 2009, for his contributions to Arts.

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