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It is based on the story of King Yayati, one of the ancestors of the Pandavas, who was cursed into premature old age by his preceptor, Shukracharya, who was incensed at Yayati's infidelity. Yayati, in turn, asks his sons to sacrifice their youth for him, and one of them agrees.
Sep 27, 2021 · The central episode in the play—the story of Devadatta and Kapil—is based on a tale from Vetala Panchavimshika, but Karnad has borrowed it through Thomas Mann’s novel Transposed Heads, a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales. Whereas the sub-plot—horse-man’s search for completeness, is Karnad’s original invention.
Mar 3, 2024 · “On a Saturday night, on the steps of a rented cottage under a star-laden sky… there was Girish, telling us the story of Nagamandala. It was a folktale that A.K. Ramanujan had told him and...
Oct 11, 2021 · Though the play is based on an historical event, Karnad’s adept use of symbolism, irony and humour makes it a modern play. It is because of these modern devices that the situations and the minor characters in the play dramatize the contemporary socio-political scenario in India.
Jul 4, 2019 · Girish Karnad was perhaps India's most preeminent playwright. He was certainly something of a prodigy. It is a truism that Mohan Rakesh, Badal Sircar, Vijay Tendulkar and Karnad form the quartet that shaped India's post-Independence theatrical canon. Karnad was the youngest.
- Sudhanva Deshpande
Jun 12, 2019 · GIRISH KARNAD’S first play Yayati (1961) with its plot line taken from the Yayati-Puru myth from the Mahabharata but with all major characters speaking in the language and images of French atheistic existentialism was perceived as a weakly constructed, somewhat wordy play, but nevertheless a powerful one. What was remarkable was the clarity ...
Aug 30, 2024 · Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938, Matheran, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra], India—died June 10, 2019, Bengaluru, Karnataka) was an Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose movies and plays, written largely in Kannada, explore the present by way of the past.
