| Prof.
Bharadwaj's research interests
are not confined of Economics alone. He has been stressing the ultimate
importance of education in human resources developments.
The Structural Society of
Aesthetics founded by him in 1968 uses theatre as a medium to propagate
the philosophy of the "Flowering of the Individual".
As the initiator of the Structural View of Aesthetics and Structural Method
of Drama, Professor Bharadwaj has contributed innovatively to the dramatic
idiom. His plays have been hailed as pacesetters.
After bertolt brecht and
staniskvsky Prof. Bharadwaj is the only theatre person who has forged
his won method of theatre called the Structural Approach. An innovator,
who has been hailed as a trial blazer. Prof. Bharadwaj has been hailed
as the doyen of modern Indian experimental theatre. A number of plays
written by him have been successfully staged in villages, metro cities
and overseas. These performances have effectively portrayed the extremely
subtle, artistic works of the professor and the basic social concerns
of these plays. Several students of Prof. Bharadwaj are using the Structural
Method in their theatre activity. Hundreds of theatre workshops have been
conducted at school, college and University levels. Recently Prof. Bharadwaj
was invited to Canada to hold a workship at the Drama Department of University
of Saskatoon.
Prof. Bharadwaj is recognized as an efficient
stage designer. The stage craft exhibition held at the J.J Institute of
Applied Arts Gallery, Bombay attracted immense critical appreciation and
professional praise from artists and art lovers. The critics lauded the
novelty and the meticulous stage designing done to the perfection. A consummate
actor Prof. Bharadwaj is also a singer and director. His contribution
Sampada Tarangini testifies to his musical creativity. Besides, Prof.
Bharadwaj is a poet and an excellent story teller.
Prof. Bharadwaj's philosophical contributions have been widely appreciated.
His works on Haridasa, has won him a title Scientist Philosopher. Especially
his works on the methodology of Haridasarus, 'The study of the Methodological
Contribution of Haridasarus of Karnataka", Published during World
Kannada Literatrary Conference by the Government of Karnataka in 1983
testifies this. Thus he is authority on Haridasa Literature.
His lectures fusing science and spiritualism
are widely popular. He has been conferred the title Pravachana Chakravarti
by the Akhila Karnataka Haridasa Sammelana-1998. A past President of Dwaita
Vedanta Studies and Research Foundation. He has been conferred with the
Dhruva Award - 2002 for his contribution to Indian philosophical thought.
Professor. Bharadwaj has always taken a
scientifically and ethically founded independent attitude towards societal
problems in his writings, talks and plays.
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