Indian Drama in English : A Kaleidoscopic View

Contents: Preface. 1. Drama as a Vehicle in Teaching English/Samyukta S. Thorat. 2. Teaching English through Drama/T. Sreelatha. 3. Evolution and Growth of Indian Drama in English with Special Reference to Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq/Jayant Shevtekar. 4. Habib Tanvir’s Charandas Chor: Revitalizing Fold into Discourse/Mustajeeb A. Khan. 5. Locked up in the House all Day: Releasing the Female Body in Girist Karnad’s Nagamandala/Shree Deepa. 6. Manteswamy and Madaish – The Heroes of the Marginalilsed/Umesh Chandra. 7. Myth and Drama: A Social Study/P.G. Kulkarni. 8. Nerd or Hunk? The Dilemma of the Contemporary Woman as found in Hayavadana by Girist Karnad/G.M. Sridevi, Shree Deepa. 9. Rani and the Rhythm of Life/Shobha Diwakar. 10. Silence the Court is in Session: Vijay Tendulkar’s Socio-Political critique on Indian Milieu/Daisy and Ravi Bhushan. 11. Social Critique in the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar/M. Vincent Paul. 12. Subversion of Traditional Image of Woman in Karnad’s Plays/S. Shylaja. 13. The Effect and Impact of English Drama on Telugu Drama/T. Vasu. 14. The Thematic Contribution of Vijay Tendulkar/N.V. Chitnis. 15. Drama is to Language, as Milk is to Health/D. John Methusela. 16. The Trauma of Partition in Asif Currimbhoy’s The Refugee/Mallam Naveen. 17. Manjula Padmanabhan’s The Harvest: Harvesting Cannibalistic Hegemony/Madhu Kamra. 18. Woman and Patriarchy: A Study of Girish Karnad’s Naga-Mandala/Ajeet Singh and Saritha. 19. Evolution and Growth of Indian Drama in English/Bhaskar Roy Barman. 20. Drama as a Powerful Medium in Teaching English/G. Sundari. 21. Image Out of Karnad’s A Heap of Broken Images/P. Gopi Chand and P. Nagasuseela. 22. Dance – A Familiar Chord in the Post-colonial Indian English Drama/P. Nagasuseela and P. Gopi Chand. Index.

Our human life is a strange drama with complex characters, myriad acts and innumerable incidents which emit fresh aroma from time to time. Indian contributed a lot to the development of World Drama and Indian Dramatists excelled in writing plays based on social, mythical, historical, spiritual and psychological issues.(Jacket)