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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Ramu Ramanathan<br />
| image = Ramu Ramanathan of Print Week India at Haymarket office in Mumbai.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|12|29}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]] (now [[Kolkata]]),<br/>[[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
| education = Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, [[University of Mumbai]], 1988<br />
| spouse = Kinnari Vohra<br />
| website = {{URL|placesotherthanthis.blogspot.com}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ramakrishnan Ramanathan''', known as '''Ramu Ramanathan''', is an Indian playwright and director. His plays include ''Mahadevbhai, Cotton 56, Polyester 84'', ''Jazz'', ''Comrade Kumbhakarna'', and ''Postcards From Bardoli''.<br />
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Besides playwriting, Ramanathan is the editor of ''PrintWeek'' and ''WhatPackaging?'' magazines. He has been associated with the print industry for 30 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Author - Ramakrishnan Ramanathan |url=https://kalnet.kshec.kerala.gov.in/vufind/Author/Home?author=Ramu+Ramanathan |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=kalnet.kshec.kerala.gov.in |language=en}}</ref><br />
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He is the author of three books. ''3, Sakina Manzil And Other Plays,'' a collection of eight plays and two collections of poems, ''My Encounters with a Peacock'' and ''To Sit on A Stone - And Other Shorts.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=RAMU RAMANATHAN |url=https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/speaker/ramu-ramanathan |website=Jaipurliteraturefestival.org |date=17 September 2013}}</ref><br />
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His book ''3, Sakina Manzil And Other Plays'',<ref>{{cite web |date=25 June 2012 |title=Playing with Words |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/playing-with-words-2/}}</ref> is published by [[Orient Blackswan]] in collaboration with the [[English and Foreign Languages University]].<ref name="3, Sakina Manzil and Other Plays">{{Cite web|url=http://orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?isbn=978-81-250-4511-3&t=e|title=Orient Blackswan Pvt.Ltd.|website=orientblackswan.com}}</ref><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
* ''Combat, published by [[National School of Drama]] (2003)'' <br />
* ''Collaborators And Mahadevbhai, [[Sahitya Akademi]] (2006)'' <br />
* ''Tathasthu ("So Be It"), in The Little Magazine (2010)''<br />
* ''Mahadevbhai (in Marathi), [[Popular Prakashan]] (2011)'' <br />
* ''3 Sakina Manzil and Other Plays (in English), [[Orient Blackswan]] (2012) - An anthology of eight plays: Shanti, Shanti It’s A War; The Boy Who Stopped Smiling; Curfew; Mahadevbhai (1892–1942); Collaborators; 3, Sakina Manzil; Shakespeare And She; Jazz.'' <br />
* ''Book Binding with Adhesives along with Tony Clark and P Sajith'' <br />
* ''My Encounters With a Peacock, Red River (2017)''<br />
*''Babri Masjid, 25 Years .. along with Irfan Engineer and Sameena Dalwai (Gyan Prakashan) (2017)''<br />
*''To Sit on A Stone - And Other Shorts, Red River (2020)''<br />
*''Mumbai Murmurings: 213* Tiny Tales of Theatre (Manipal Universal Press) (2023)''<br />
*''Two plays: Cotton 56, Polyester 84 and Comrade Kumbhakarna, Red River (2023)''<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRp8RZXVAjI The Eleventh Dr. Ashok Da Ranade Memorial Lecture: 8 ½ Reasons Why We Need Playwrights Today] <br />
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwOw-NsVmCY Mumbai Local with Ramu Ramanathan: Voices of Dissent]<br />
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGyPbnkHfA Ramu Ramanathan: My favourite poets from Krakow][https://gaana.com/song/ep-13-vijay-tendulkar-biography-by-ramu-ramanathan-part-1 Vijay Tendulkar Biography by Ramu Ramanathan (Part 1)]<br />
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[https://gaana.com/song/ep-14-vijay-tendulkar-biography-by-ramu-ramanathan-part-2 Vijay Tendulkar Biography by Ramu Ramanathan (Part 2)]<br />
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[https://www.instagram.com/p/CW3JxaThoWc/ Ramu Ramanathan speaks to the translators of the books: Delhi and Anticlock - Fathima EV, Nandakumar K and Ministhy S]<br />
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