Indian Sensibility in Girish Karnad's Select Plays

Girish Karnad is regarded as one of the three great writers of Indian Drama the other two being Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar. Whereas Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar deal with the problems of middle-class society Girish Karnad takes shelter in the Indian myths and legends and makes them a vehicle of a new vision. Karnad's most famous plays are Yayati Tughlaq Hayavadana Naga-Mandala and The Fire and the Rain. The book is a study about three select plays namely Hayavadana Naga-Mandala and The Fire and the Rain in context of Indian Sensibility from three concepts - thematic female beauty and language.