It is due to a woeful lack of awareness of literature in regional languages, that Vijaydan Detha is not better known. The great writer and folklorist (who passed away in 2013) was once a contender for the Nobel Prize for literature, and has often been called the Shakespeare of Rajasthan, with that unfortunate tendency of measuring every Indian’s achievement with a Western yardstick.

Ajay Kumar performing Bade Bhaand To Bade Bhaand, an adaptation of a Detha story, Rijak Ki Maryada