Arunkumar Nooli

Beyond the Vedic Altar: Moral Compassion, Subaltern Resilience, and Marginalized Erasure in Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain

Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain (1998) reimagines an episode from the Mahabharata to interrogate the relationship between ritual authority, social hierarchy, power, and human suffering. While the play foregrounds the spiritual ambitions and conflicts of upper-caste male characters such as Yavakri and Paravasu, it...