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| birth_date = 16 August 1919<br />
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| children = Urmi Bhushan Gupta, Rashmi Vajpeyi, Kirti Jain and Sanjay Jain<ref>https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/living-memories/article26331985.ece</ref><br />
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'''Nemi Chandra Jain''' was an Indian poet, critic, theatre personality and the founder of ''Natarang Pratishthan'', a charitable trust established in 1989 for the promotion of theatre, arts, literature and culture in India.<ref name="Natarang Pratishthan">{{cite web | url=http://www.natarang.org/pratishthan.html | title=Natarang Pratishthan | publisher=Natarang Pratishthan | date=2015 | access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref> He was born on 16 August 1919 in Agra and was a holder of a master's degree (MA) in English.<ref name="Vani Prakashan">{{cite web | url=http://www.vaniprakashan.in/auth-details.php?wid=621 | title=Vani Prakashan | publisher=Vani Prakashan | date=2015 | access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref> He served the [[National School of Drama]] as a senior lecturer from 1959 till 1982 and also worked with [[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]] and [[The Economic Times]] as a columnist.<ref name="Vani Prakashan" /> He founded ''Natrang'', a theatre magazine, was its editor and visited many countries with his theatre activities.<ref name="Vani Prakashan" /> He was the author of ''Octave Strings'' (1944), ''Solitary'' (1973), ''Navanna'' (2002),<ref name="Navanna">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Navanna-HINDI-Nemichandra-Jain/dp/B003DRLJ0W/ref=la_B00J1PCWLU_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423806283&sr=1-1 | title=Navanna | publisher=National Book Trust | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2002 | pages=98 | asin=B003DRLJ0W}}</ref> ''Aage Gahan Andhera Hai'' (2007)<ref name="Aage Gahan Andhera Hai">{{cite book | url=http://www.geeta-kavita.com/indian_poetry_list.asp?author=Nemichandra_Jain | title=Aage Gahan Andhera Hai | publisher=Geeta Kavita | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2007}}</ref> and ''Rang Dharshan'' (2008)<ref name="Rang Dharshan">{{cite book | url=http://www.rajkamalprakashan.com/index.php?p=sr&Field=author&String=Nemichandra%20Jain | title=Rang Dharshan | publisher=Rajkamal Prakashan | author=Nemichadra Jain | year=2008 | isbn=9788171193318}}</ref> besides several translations and critical essays<ref name="Asides - Themes in Contemporary Indian Theatre">{{cite book | url=http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-3375/2005/march/3/dispassionate-musings.html | title=Asides - Themes in Contemporary Indian Theatre | publisher=National School of Drama | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2003 | pages=206}}</ref> on a variety of subjects.<ref name="Vani Prakashan" /> including ''From the Wings, Notes on Indian Theatre'',<ref name="From the Wings, Notes on Indian Theatre">{{cite book | url=http://www.shimply.com/books/from-the-wings-notes-on-indian-theatre-p33828257 | title=From the Wings, Notes on Indian Theatre | publisher=National School of Drama | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2007 | isbn=9788181970237 | access-date=22 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128012127/http://www.shimply.com/books/from-the-wings-notes-on-indian-theatre-p33828257 | archive-date=28 January 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> which is a prescribed text for academics at [[Christ University]].<ref name="DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS SYLLABUS ">{{cite web | url=http://christuniversity.in/uploadimages/PEP%20SYLLABUS2012.pdf | title=DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS SYLLABUS | publisher=Christ University | date=2016 | access-date=22 January 2016}}</ref><br />
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Jain was honoured by the [[Government of India]] in 2003 with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Padma Awards | date=2015 | access-date=6 February 2015}}</ref> He died two years later, in 2005.<ref name="Withered Papyrus">{{cite web | url=http://www.witheredpapyrus.com/2013/11/Asides-by-Nemichandra-Jain.html#.VNzyCMv9nwo | title=Withered Papyrus | publisher=Withered Papyrus | date=2015 | access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Passes away">{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/writer-and-padma-shri-awardee-nemichandra-jain-passes-away/1/194115.html | title=Passes away | publisher=India Today | date=2005 | access-date=13 February 2015}}</ref> Natrang Pratishthan has instituted an annual lecture to honour his memory.<ref name="Memorial Lecture">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/nemichandra-jain-memorial-lecture/article5007804.ece | title=Memorial Lecture | work=The Hindu | date=2015 | access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Times City">{{cite web | url=http://timescity.com/delhi/events/nemichandra-jain-memorial-lecture/143705 | title=Times City | publisher=Times City | date=2015 | access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref><br />
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His wife, Smt. Rekha Jain was a children playwright, dancer and writer. She was founder director of ''Umang Children's theatre''.<ref name = "Umang Children's Theatre">http://umangchildrentheatre.org/rekha-jain.html</ref><br />
His daughter, Kirti Jain is also an eminent theatre artist and served the [[National School of Drama]] as The Director from 1988 till 1995.<ref>https://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/citation_popup.php?id=1814&at=2</ref><ref>https://nsd.gov.in/delhi/index.php/the-director/</ref><br />
His son, Sanjay Jain is Professor at [[Department of Physics and Astrophysics]], [[University of delhi]] and has served as Head of the Department.<ref>http://people.du.ac.in/~jain/index.htm</ref><br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-3375/2005/march/3/dispassionate-musings.html | title=Asides - Themes in Contemporary Indian Theatre | publisher=National School of Drama | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2003 | pages=206}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://www.rajkamalprakashan.com/index.php?p=sr&Field=author&String=Nemichandra%20Jain | title=Rang Dharshan | publisher=Rajkamal Prakashan | author=Nemichadra Jain | year=2008 | isbn=9788171193318}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://www.geeta-kavita.com/indian_poetry_list.asp?author=Nemichandra_Jain | title=Aage Gahan Andhera Hai | publisher=Geeta Kavita | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2007}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Navanna-HINDI-Nemichandra-Jain/dp/B003DRLJ0W/ref=la_B00J1PCWLU_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423806283&sr=1-1 | title=Navanna | publisher=National Book Trust | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2002 | pages=98 | asin=B003DRLJ0W}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=http://www.shimply.com/books/from-the-wings-notes-on-indian-theatre-p33828257 | title=From the Wings, Notes on Indian Theatre | publisher=National School of Drama | author=Nemichandra Jain | year=2007 | isbn=9788181970237 | access-date=22 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128012127/http://www.shimply.com/books/from-the-wings-notes-on-indian-theatre-p33828257 | archive-date=28 January 2016 | url-status=dead }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://www.natarang.org/pratishthan.html | title=Natarang Pratishtan Home Page | publisher=Natarang Pratishtan | date=2015 | access-date=13 February 2015}}<br />
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