| A BOOK REVIEW | | | | scholarly paper entitles "Displaying the theatrical |
| Thunder On Stage : A Study of Girish Karnad's Plays | | | | Effectiveness : (Re-) cording through Techniques in |
| C.L. Khatri & Sudhir K. Arora (Ed). Book Enclave, | | | | Girish Karnad's Tughlaq forces the theatrical |
| Jaipur, India, 2008, Rs. 695 ISBN-978-81-8152-222-1 | | | | effectiveness in this play. Dr. G.S. Jha presents |
| Girish Karnad (1938) is a significant name in Indian | | | | Karnad's Haya-vadana as a post colonial text is his |
| English drama. He has enriched the Indian drama by | | | | scholarly paper entitled "Girish Karnad's Hayavadana : |
| his dramatic skills. He wrote plays first in his adopted | | | | A Post Colonial Fruition'. "Post-colonialist, despite all |
| language Kannada and then translated most of then | | | | controversies includes the question of identity, |
| into English. His originality as a dramatist lies in his | | | | alienation, moral code, fulfillment, mythological |
| extraordinary skill of using myth, history and folktale | | | | orientation, gender placement, meta-physical dualism, |
| to make the drama lively and thought provoking. This | | | | neo-colonial dialectic etc, Karnad plays with historical |
| anthology contains twenty two scholarly papers and | | | | and mythological episodes to prove his typical |
| these papers make an in depth study of Yayati, | | | | post-colonial stature." Dr. A. Vanitha throws light on |
| Tughlaq, Hayavadana, Bali : The Sacrifice, Naga | | | | the magic realist attributes in Hayavadana (1975) in |
| Mandala. Tala-Danda. The Fire and the Rain. The | | | | his paper "The Third Eye Vision in Girish Karnad's |
| Dreams of Tipu Sultion. A heap of Broken Images | | | | Hayavadana'. Dr. Kumud Agarwal presents |
| and Flowers. Dr. Khatri and Dr. Arora make us familiar | | | | Hayavadana as evolutionary medium in her paper |
| with Karnad in the scholarly written Preface, "for his | | | | "Evolving the Man : A Note on Girish Karnad's |
| contribution to literature, he got many prestigious | | | | Hayavadana as Drama of Evolutionary Impulse in |
| award that include : Mysore State Award for Yayati | | | | Man." Binod Mishra presents scholarly paper entitled |
| (1962), Government of Mysore Rajyotsava Award | | | | "Girish Karnad's Bali : The Sacrifice : A voice of |
| (1970), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Play | | | | Reason against a saga of Myth." "Thus we find that |
| writing (1972), Padma Shri (1974)" "Writer of the | | | | Karnad's Bali based on spiritual rifts between two |
| Year" Award from Granthaloka Journal of the Book | | | | religion us sects challenges the idiosyncratic practice |
| Trade for Taladanda (1990), the Karnatak Sahitya | | | | and expose the hypocrisy of Man to God." Dr. |
| Akademi Award for the Most Creative Work for | | | | Anshuman Khanna presents dialogic ramifications in |
| Nagam and ala (1992), the B.H. Sridhar Award for | | | | Karnad's Bali in his paper "Dialogic Ramifications in |
| Taledanda (1992), the Padma Bhushan Award (1992) | | | | Karnad's Bale, The Sacrifice." Dr. Madhubala Saxena |
| ...... the Sahitya Academy Award for Taledanda | | | | peeps into the characters of Karnad's play Bali in her |
| (1994), the Gubbi Veeranna Award (1997), the | | | | scholarly paper "Portraying the Inner Lands cape : A |
| Bhartiya Jnanpith Award (1999) and Kalidas Samman | | | | Peep into the characters of Girish Karnad's Bali : The |
| by the Government of Madhya Pradesh (1999)." In | | | | Sacrifice. Dr. Shubha Mishra explores foricairlt's |
| the first paper of the anthology entitled "Girish | | | | Parropticism in her paper entitled" Reading and (Mis) |
| Karnad : The Man and The Play Wright", Dr. Khatre | | | | reading Girish Karnad's, Bali : The Sacrifice, in the light |
| presents the marathon odyssey of Girish Karnad. | | | | of foucanlt's Panopticism.' Dr. Anupam Bansal and Dr. |
| "Karnad wanted to be a poet of English but he | | | | Satish Kumar presents women empowerment in |
| became a play Wright in Kannada and Indian English | | | | Girish Karnad's Naga Mandala in their paper entitled |
| of par excellence. His plays proved to be an epoch | | | | "Emanicipating Women : A Note on Women |
| making both critically and in stage production." The | | | | Empowerment in Girish Karnad's Naga Mandala." Dr. |
| second paper entitled 'Brecht's Non-Aristotelian | | | | R.R. Priyadharshini presents archetypal perspective in |
| Theory of Drama and Dramatic Art of Girish Karnad' | | | | her paper entitled "Girish Karnad's Naga Mandala : An |
| by Dr. R.N. Rai explores Brecht's theory of drama and | | | | Archetrypal Perspective". Dr. M.R. Verma explores |
| compares it with the dramatic art of Girish Karnad. | | | | Karnad's Tale-Tale-Danda : Present ness of the Past : |
| "Brechtian in fluency on Karnad made him sharply | | | | Dr. G.A. Ghanshyan and Raj Ralcha Singh explores |
| aware of the theatricality imaginativeness and | | | | jealousy and ego-the two important human aspects |
| inherent power of the Indian theatre. It sensitised | | | | in the Fire and the Rain in their paper entitled "The |
| him to the rich potentialities of non-naturalistic | | | | Fire and the Rain : A Tale of Inflated Egos', Dr. |
| techniques of our traditional theatre. Admitting | | | | Archana Rathore explores classical myths in The Fire |
| Brecht's influence on his dramatic works Karnad | | | | and the Rain in her scholarly paper entitled "Vivifying |
| remarks that "Brecht's influence, received mainly | | | | the classical Myths : A Note on Girish Karnad's. The |
| through his writing and without the benefit of his | | | | Fire and the Rain : Dr. (Mrs.) Gulshan Das and Ms. |
| theatrical productions, went some way in making us | | | | Tanjiem Ara Khan finds myths in Girish Karnad's 'The |
| realize what could be done with the design of | | | | Fire and the Rain' in their paper "Intertextuality and |
| traditional theatre." (Karnad, 14) The third paper by | | | | Retelling of Myths in Girish Karand's The Fire and the |
| Dr. Jyoti Gupta and Dr. Sushma Sharma entitled | | | | Rain. This anthology contains last two scholarly |
| 'Existentialism in Girish Karnad' Yayati presents | | | | papers by one of brilliant scholars of Indian English |
| existentialism in the play Yayati'. S.T. Kharat explores | | | | Literature Dr. S.K. Arora. In the first paper he |
| evil deception and violence in Karnad's play Tughlaq in | | | | presents Karnad's The Dreams of Tipu Sultan as a |
| his play ' The Projection of Evil, Deception and | | | | post colonial text. "The story of Tipu Sultan clearly |
| Violence in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq' "The play is thus | | | | exhibits that the English were afraid of Tipu Sultan., |
| packed with intrigues machinations, blood-shed, | | | | the only person in South India, as they were very |
| terrible murders, violence and horror. There is a long | | | | well aware of his capabilities and skill in handling the |
| chain of deception and violence. Seven to eight major | | | | administration and the defense system of his |
| characters are killed and countless people die during | | | | Kingdom." Dr. Arora presents aesthetics and breaking |
| the exodus." Dr. Rajendra Prasad Y. Shinde presents | | | | of the Ethics in Karnad's Two Monologues in his |
| Tughlaq as a political saga in his scholarly paper | | | | scholarly paper. This anthology is unique in its own |
| "Tughlaq : A contemporary play by Girish Karnad." Dr. | | | | kind and both Dr. Khatri and Dr. Arora kind and both |
| N.K. Neb has raised some issues regarding the | | | | Dr. Khatri and Dr. Arora are successful in their efforts. |
| dramatisation of the failure in the play 'Tughlaq' in his | | | | This anthology is a must read for every avid reader |
| paper entitled "Girish Karnad's Tughlaq : | | | | and student of English literature. Although the price |
| Dramatiesation of the Failure of Dialogical | | | | Rs. 695 looks quite much. |
| co-existence.' "The failure of the dialogical discourse | | | | By : Dr. Ram Sharma Senior Lecture in English C-26, |
| to take place lies in Tughlaq's centralising perspective. | | | | Shradhapuri Phase-2 Kankerkhera. Meerut Cantt - |
| Even the play Wright seems to realise this." Another | | | | 250001 (U.P.) E-mail : dr. |