The book makes an innovative attempt at of-fering a wide and comprehensive gallery of Indian playwrights, evaluating their signifi-cant works. Included in the volume are writ-ers like Tagore, Asif Currimbhoy, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahasweta Devi and......
Hayavadana is one of the best plays of Kar-nad. The book offers an exhaustive commentary on the play covering all aspects and is followed by scholarly articles by eminent scholars..
The book makes an in-depth study of the theme of cultural deformity in its variegated aspects as revealed in the plays of Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar. The focus is on six cultural de-formities: gender, social, political, physical, mental and......
The book offers a comparative study of Chandragupta, a play written by Hindi play-wright Jayshankar Prasad and also by Bengali writer Dwijendralal Roy. The present book brings out several affinities and differences between the two versions of the same play, making great......
Mahesh Dattani, the winner of prestigious Sahitya Akademi award, is one of the fore-most Indian playwrights. Final Solutions, the best-known play of Dattani, deals with the burning issue of Hindu-Muslim hostility and other commercial issues that India is facing today. The......
Mahesh Dattani’s play Tara has a great con-temporary relevance. It offers a commentary on gender issues and the position of woman in Indian society. The book critically analyses the theme and purpose of the play.
The anthology is designed to introduce to a wider audience India’s most important con-temporary dramatists Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad and to give analytic and critical assessments of their work.
The volume brings together a series of scho-larly papers on contemporary Indian drama and theatre. It includes perceptive studies on Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Nissim Ezekiel, Badal Sircar and Mohan Rakesh.
The book critically examines various themes viz. humanism, identity crisis, literary genet-ics, condensation and desire for recognition in the plays of Girish Karnad, with a focus on his most representative play Hayavadana. The analysis reveals that Karnad’s plays are steeped in......
