History Myths and Society in Girish Karnad's Plays: A Study

Girish Karnad is well known modern
Indian Playwright and is considered one
of the foremost outstanding practitioners
of the humanistic discipline. He had acted
in movies, directed and produced movies,
documentaries, and TVserials in Kannada,
Hindi, and English. This dissertation may
be a modest plan to study Girish Karnad
as a contemporary Indian Dramatist.
Girish Karnad is one of the fashionable
playwrights who experimented with drama
and created a replacement wave to Indian
drama history. He is not only a Kannada
playwright but also an acclaimed Indian
writer who had a distinctive voice in the
literary scenario. Karnad is additionally
noted for his bold and courageous stand
against the right-wing politics of India. He
is a writer who travels beyond the
boundaries of Karnataka, India, and
abroad which created an exclusive space
for Indian drama. He had an intellectual
clarity of what is going to work or his
purpose about the theme and sort of each
play. This clarity made his plays popular
both in India and abroad. Girish Karnad,
being an ambitious person always had a
thoughtful mind about literature and
drama. He was fascinated by history,
particularly Indian history which resulted
in his most original historical plays
Tuglaq, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, and
Tale Danda. On the other hand, he
explored the realm of History, society, and
myths which produced beautiful mythical
plays include Yayati, Hayavadana,
Nagamandala, and Broken mirrors.