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Ecocritical Dimensions in Girish Karnad’s Naga-Mandala and Yayati

Author(s) Dr. KUNWAR SAHAB SINGH
Country India
Abstract To examine contemporary social issues, Girish Karnad's dramaturgy draws heavily on myth, folklore, and ritual theatre. An ecocritical reading sheds light on Karnad's mythic revisionism, gender politics, and postcolonial interventions, but the plays' intimate relationships between humans and nonhuman entities (snakes, forests, bodies, seasons) shed light on interdependence ethics, vegetal/animal agency, and the ecological effects of power and desire. This paper examines Naga-Mandala (1988) and Yayati (1961) through ecofeminist and ecocritical lenses. It combines contemporary Karnad readings, Indian environmental theory, and classical ecocriticism to argue that both plays imagine moral economies in which human arrogance and gendered violence are inseparable from ruptures in the world beyond human beings. The analysis demonstrates how Karnad's folklore and myths, theatrical staging, and symbolic metamorphosis produce an ethics of relationality that is still relevant to current discussions regarding sustainability, the commons, and the place that humans play in nature.
Keywords: Girish Karnad, Indian theatre, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, myth, folklore, ritual, Naga-Mandala, Yayati, ecological ethics, human-nonhuman relations, metamorphosis.
Keywords Girish Karnad, Indian theatre, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, myth, folklore, ritual, Naga-Mandala, Yayati, ecological ethics, human-nonhuman relations, metamorphosis.
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Published In Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-01-31
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i01.67666
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