“I was twenty-one when I came to Daulatabad first, and built this fort,” says Muhammad Tughlaq to a young guard in Girish Karnad’s play of the same name. Set in a vibrant ageKarnad’s first play, Yayati (1961), written when he was in Oxford, was about the theme of responsibility. In 1971, he wrote the introduction to the Oxford University Press translation of Karnad’s second play, Tughlaq (1964). It is also the loss of a towering public intellectual who was not afraid to speak his mind, whether about the prejudices of fellow writer V.S. These are the central concerns of Karnad’s work.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2019 18:22 UTC