History Myths and Society in Girish Karnad's Plays: A Study

<p>Girish Karnad is well known modern<br>Indian Playwright and is considered one<br>of the foremost outstanding practitioners<br>of the humanistic discipline. He had acted<br>in movies, directed and produced movies,<br>documentaries, and TVserials in Kannada,<br>Hindi, and English. This dissertation may<br>be a modest plan to study Girish Karnad<br>as a contemporary Indian Dramatist.<br>Girish Karnad is one of the fashionable<br>playwrights who experimented with drama<br>and created a replacement wave to Indian<br>drama history. He is not only a Kannada<br>playwright but also an acclaimed Indian<br>writer who had a distinctive voice in the<br>literary scenario. Karnad is additionally<br>noted for his bold and courageous stand<br>against the right-wing politics of India. He<br>is a writer who travels beyond the<br>boundaries of Karnataka, India, and<br>abroad which created an exclusive space<br>for Indian drama. He had an intellectual<br>clarity of what is going to work or his<br>purpose about the theme and sort of each<br>play. This clarity made his plays popular<br>both in India and abroad. Girish Karnad,<br>being an ambitious person always had a<br>thoughtful mind about literature and<br>drama. He was fascinated by history,<br>particularly Indian history which resulted<br>in his most original historical plays<br>Tuglaq, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, and<br>Tale Danda. On the other hand, he<br>explored the realm of History, society, and<br>myths which produced beautiful mythical<br>plays include Yayati, Hayavadana,<br>Nagamandala, and Broken mirrors.</p>