Incompleteness in Completeness: Negotiating Fragmentation and Identity in Karnad’s Hayavadana
Author: Dr. Aparna Das DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/04010033 Abstract: Post-independence Indian theatre reveals profound tensions between colonial inheritance and indigenous cultural memory, a conflict powerfully dramatised in Girish Karmad’s Hayavadana. The study offers a postcolonial reading of the play to explore the paradox of “incompleteness within completeness” as a central metaphor for fractured identity. Through myth, …
