Please answer the following question: Facts: - spouse: dipti varma - children: aliya varma - birth date: 1952 - name: rahul varma - nationality: indian/canadian - birth place: lucknow , india - alma mater: university of lucknow Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of rahul varma .
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rahul varma -lrb- born 1952 in lucknow , india -rrb- is a canadian playwright .he attended college at the university of lucknow , and moved to canada in 1976 .he co-founded teesri duniya theatre in 1981 , and became its artistic director in 1986 .he began teesri duniya 's quarterly magazine , '' alt.theatre '' , in 1998 .he lives in montreal with his wife , dipti , and his daughter , aliya , who was in the original chorus of his play '' bhopal '' .his most famous plays are '' counter offence '' and '' bhopal '' , both of which have been translated into french and other languages .nearly all of his plays are based on actual events , and all of them have racism , justice , and inequality at their core .he began his theatre , teesri duniya theatre -lrb- which means third world in hindi -rrb- , so that south asians living in canada would have a voice in theatre .