Drama Queens: Women who created history on stage by Veejay Sai. Published in 2017 by Roli Books, M-75, Greater Kailash II Market, New Delhi 110048; email: info@rolibooks.com; website: www.rolibooks.com. Pp: 208. Price: Not mentioned.
Can you imagine that in the early 1900s the Great South Indian Railway Company headquartered in London ran trains called ‘Balamani Special Express’ to ferry audiences from Trichy to Kumbakonam where the legendary Balamani was performing?
Or that Munni Bai, the biggest singing star of the Parsi stage, continued a performance despite a snake slithering into her flowing hair as the audience gaped?
Or that as early as 1898,......