Therefore, though these two aspects are completely disjoint, they are two sides of the same coin .Heads and tails; heads-the ego and tails -the snake following its instincts. That Naga is Appanna is indubitable from the very outset, the beginning of Naga's entrance.Rukhaya M...
Girish Karnad has dealt with the gender issues in almost all his plays. Naga Mandala is a feminist play that not only attacks and exposes male bigotry, the repression of women, the discrimination done to them by men and the patriarchal culture, but also quietly deflates the concept of ...
In this feminist play Girish Karnad has created a world where the female protagonist is struggling to establish her identity and space of honour, and also posing a challenge to the norms and values made by the male-dominated society.JANARDAN ROY...
Girish Karnad shows different dimensions in play writing and becomes visible as a humanist, as a mythical playwright and as an existentialist. As an existentialist, Karnad nicely maintains existentialism in the plots of mythical, historical and folk tales. With his first play "Yayati", he touches...
The paper titled `Cultural semiotics in Girish Karnad's Nagamandala' explores the cultural symbols presented in the play Naga-Mandala (1987-88). Semiotics deals with symbols and signs that represent a meaning in the given context. Cultural semiotics studies the cultural signs and symbols. Naga-...
Girish Karnad is the foremost playwright of the contemporary stage. He has given the Indian Theatre a richness that could probably be equated with his talents as actor cum director. He has represented India in foreign lands as an ambassador of art and culture. His plays are staged in theatre...
Even as she suspects Naga, she refuses to wake up to reality. Rani's experience with Naga borders on a dream-like situation . Naga comes in the guise of her husband, but he cannot change what he is. This is brilliantly manifested by the dramatistDr. Amrita Ghosh...
Is sex the original sin or the third of the four Purusharthas, the four goals of human life? Is...Durai, Denish Raja K.IUP PublicationsIUP Journal of English Studies
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