Characteristics Of Girish Karnad

RECUPERATION OF INDIAN CULTURE AND TRADITION IN THE FIRE AND THE RAIN Girish Karnad is the famous respected media personality in the contemporary India, leading playwright and very skillful fractioned of the performing arts. The English translations of his plays are his own. They have brought him international recognition as the pre-eminent contemporary playwright. He has value of the Indian Literary scene by his contribution to art, culture, theatre and drama. But the most important provide something which he has made to Indian English drama is his attempt to get the cultural and mythological rich tradition of the Indian past. The argument of this paper would be to highlight Karnad’s contribution in this direction.

India is a post-colonial nation having its own distinct culture and colonial trends. It is also multi cultural character in that it has create a presence of indigenous traditions, culture, ethos which are unfortunately push and conquer and bring under control by the imported culture of Europe. Girish Karnad is one such dramatist who makes an attempt to get a very valuable object of culture and tradition. Culture and social colonization of the native culture by the dominant foreign influence has not only resulted in never done change in social and cultural ethos of India, but it has also be present by an alternation of the economic scenario of our nation. And worst affected are the traditional arts and crafts. Because of this that writers like Girish Karnad make an attempt in their writing to bring about a ‘cultural renaissance’ on the Indian literary scene. He has been rightly called the “Renaissance Man”, whose celebrity is based on decades of prolific and consistence output on native