Mad Woman in the Attic

Article published in European Academic Research Journal “One should be able to rob a man and then stay there to punish him for getting robbed. That’s called ‘class’-that’s being a real king”                                                                                                 Aziz (Karnad 1971: 58) Tughlaq , Karnad's second play, written in 1964, is perhaps his best known. The play shows the transformation of the character of the medieval ruler Mohammad bin Tughlaq . From a sensitive and intellig...

Article published in Muse India Mohan Rakesh  wrote of his age in his diary: “Huge buildings were built, government and semi-government centers, commissions and agencies, factories and machines, dams and development programmes, and government dictionaries were built. Below this development, emerged a very distorted and mutilated humanity. It felt as if people, already so earlier, were growing smaller and worthless, under the shadows of huge patterns of change… the entire base of humanity was crumbling and falling down.”  (Chatak 2003:24) This was the age that  Rakesh  was born in and led his life. His literary style was very much a product of his age. Modernism as the dominant literary mode, as it manifests itself in Realism, Symbolism, and Existentialism, came to influence Indian literature as well. However, modernism in India was not the same as in the west. Our experience of modernity was shaped by British colonialism, underdone industrialization and sc...