Andha Yug
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9780198065227
Publication date:
25/11/2009
Paperback
168 pages
219x150mm
Price: 295.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198065227
Publication date:
25/11/2009
Paperback
168 pages
Dharamvir Bharati, Alok Bhalla
Author, prominent Hindi novelist, poet, and playwright,Play, a landmark in Hindi theatre,Translation by well-known practitioner,Critical Introduction
Rights: World Rights
Dharamvir Bharati, Alok Bhalla
Description
This is a translation of Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug (1953), one of the most significant plays of modern India. Written immediately after the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the play is a profound meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood. The action of the play takes place on the last day of the Mahabharata war and is centred on a few bewildered survivors of the Kaurava clan. The ramparts are in ruins, the city is burning, and Kurukshetra is covered with corpses and vultures. The surviving Kauravas are overwhelmed by grief and rage. They long for one last act of revenge against the Pandavas. That is why when Ashwatthama releases the ultimate weapon, the brahmastra, which threatens to annihilate the world, they refuse to condemn it as ethically reprehensible.
About the author
the late Dharamvir Bharati, Hindi novelist, poet, and playwright, and Translated by Alok Bhalla, Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New DelhiDharamvir Bharati, Alok Bhalla
Table of contents
The moral dha Yug o Prefatory Note o A Note to the Directors o Prologue o Act One: The Kaurava Kingdom o Act Two: The Making of a Beast o Act Three: The Half-truth of Ashwatthama o Interlude: Feathers, Wheels and Bandages o Act Four: Gandhari's Curse o Act Five: Victory and a Series of Suicides o Epilogue: Death of the Lord
Dharamvir Bharati, Alok Bhalla
Description
This is a translation of Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug (1953), one of the most significant plays of modern India. Written immediately after the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the play is a profound meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood. The action of the play takes place on the last day of the Mahabharata war and is centred on a few bewildered survivors of the Kaurava clan. The ramparts are in ruins, the city is burning, and Kurukshetra is covered with corpses and vultures. The surviving Kauravas are overwhelmed by grief and rage. They long for one last act of revenge against the Pandavas. That is why when Ashwatthama releases the ultimate weapon, the brahmastra, which threatens to annihilate the world, they refuse to condemn it as ethically reprehensible.
About the author
the late Dharamvir Bharati, Hindi novelist, poet, and playwright, and Translated by Alok Bhalla, Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New DelhiTable of contents
The moral dha Yug o Prefatory Note o A Note to the Directors o Prologue o Act One: The Kaurava Kingdom o Act Two: The Making of a Beast o Act Three: The Half-truth of Ashwatthama o Interlude: Feathers, Wheels and Bandages o Act Four: Gandhari's Curse o Act Five: Victory and a Series of Suicides o Epilogue: Death of the Lord
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