Pavan Kumar Pandey
Girish Karnad's Hayavadana: Analysis of Text and its Theatrical Performance Journal of Research in HumanitiesKhan, Amara
“It will be magical to see Neelam Man Singh’s aesthetics matched to Girish Karnad’s text. Both are auteurs, very responsible socially and culturally when creating their work, and very intense. I think it’s going to be a unique experi...
Girish Karnad's play Hayavadana is a thought-provoking work that raises questions about the nature of identity and self-discovery. The play follows the lives of the central characters: Padmini, Devadatta, Kapila, and Hayavadana, to explore themes of identity, self-discovery, and wholeness. The...
A Mythical and Theatrical Perspective: Girish Karnad's Hayavadana Language in IndiaSaroj, Subhash Kumar
Ruchi BhardwajResearch Journals
In India, Girish Karnad is famous as a playwright, actor, poet, director, critic, and translator; in the West, he is considered a 'postcolonial author.' But his most famous play Hayavadana contests this normative definition of Euro-American provenance through the choice of genre, formal ...
With the course of the time, Devadutta gains body of Kapila and Kapila develops the intellectual beauty of Devadutta. At the end of the play, both friends Devadutta and Kapila fights a duel in which their heads roll again and Padmini toys the idea of perfo...
Kirtinath Kurtkoti observes:Karnad's play poses a different problem, that of human identity in a worldof tangled relationships.4Padmini mixes the head and the body of Devadatta and Kapila so that Devadatta's mask goes to Kapila's body and vice-versa. This implies her inner urge to have ...
IntroductionGirish Raghunath Karnad, a well known contemporary playwright and man of many talents, exhibits his skill of presenting an unique theme of identity crisis through his unusual play Hayavadana (Horse - face) in the theatrical history of modern India. The theme is suggested in the play...