THE ISSUE OF CASTEISM CREATE A PANIC ROLE IN THE PLAYS OF GIRISH KARNAD THAT REFLECTS RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Girish Karnad has written “Tale- Danda” in 1993. This play is specially based on casteism which is affected in society. This Drama is composed by Karnad to oppose caste system. Tale-Danda’s casteism represents religious interpretation of a human world in which, there is a struggle with variation of its own nature and context of the culture as well as history expresses a craft observation of the political condition, in the reference of “Veerashaiva” where the king Bijjala creates the problem of leadership and inter caste marriage of Kalavati, a Brahmin girl with Sheelavanta, a cobbler’s son. Key words : Tale-Danda, Casteism, Religion, Basavanna, Play