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    1. The document discusses Kuvempu's play "Shudra Tapasvi" from a postmodern perspective. Kuvempu was a major 20th century Kannada writer who reinterpreted myths like Ramayana to communicate humanist ideas. 2. The play focuses on the episode from Ramayana where Rama kills Shambuka, a lower-caste man meditating, to appease Brahmins. Kuvempu questions the justification for Rama's actions and the notion that literature must uphold caste hierarchies. 3. The analysis argues Rama in Valmiki's Ramayana is presented as unconcerned with lower castes and acts solely to protect

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    1. The document discusses Kuvempu's play "Shudra Tapasvi" from a postmodern perspective. Kuvempu was a major 20th century Kannada writer who reinterpreted myths like Ramayana to communicate humanist ideas. 2. The play focuses on the episode from Ramayana where Rama kills Shambuka, a lower-caste man meditating, to appease Brahmins. Kuvempu questions the justification for Rama's actions and the notion that literature must uphold caste hierarchies. 3. The analysis argues Rama in Valmiki's Ramayana is presented as unconcerned with lower castes and acts solely to protect

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    1. The document discusses Kuvempu's play "Shudra Tapasvi" from a postmodern perspective. Kuvempu was a major 20th century Kannada writer who reinterpreted myths like Ramayana to communicate humanist ideas. 2. The play focuses on the episode from Ramayana where Rama kills Shambuka, a lower-caste man meditating, to appease Brahmins. Kuvempu questions the justification for Rama's actions and the notion that literature must uphold caste hierarchies. 3. The analysis argues Rama in Valmiki's Ramayana is presented as unconcerned with lower castes and acts solely to protect

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    1. KUVEMPUS SHUDRA TAPASVI: A POSTMODERNIST STUDY Prakash C.

    Balikai(PhD, CUK) Kuvempu, a national poet of Karnataka, is undoubtedly the great writer of 20th century Kannada Literature. He was a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, an essayist, a biographer and a playwright. He excelled in all forms of literature. Although his name and fame mainly rests on his two epic-novels his poetry including his epic poem Shree Ramayana Darshanam, his plays and prose writings cannot be undermined. Kuvempu was the first Kannada poet who reinterpreted the time tested Indian myths, questioned the stands they take and changed and twisted them for the purpose of retelling. He demystified myths and used them to communicate his thoughts in light of humanism and rationalism. The paper makes an attempt to study Kuvempus play Shudra Tapasvi (A Shudras Meditation) from a post-modernist perspective. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are regarded as Indian great metanarratives-- a fact that every Indian writer has acknowledged from time immemorial. Major poets in all the regional languages have written epics, poems and plays based on the Ramayana. In the Kannada language alone, many versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have come out. Kuvempus Shree Ramayana Darshanam is a new addition to the list of epics written on the Ramayana. Kuvempus Shudra Tapasvi which appeared in the early decades of 20th century disturbed modern Kannada writers, hurt the traditional minded people and added a new dimension to humanism. Kuvempu has borrowed the episode of Shambukavadha (the killing of Shambuka) from the Ramayana to write his play Shudra Tapasvi. He tried to demystify by re-writing the myth. Kuvempu wrote his play at a time when people still used to think of literature and culture within the parameters of sanatanadharma and they were conditioned by the taboos of their times. But writers like Kuvempu raised the banner of revolt against such a parochial and one sided point of view. Valmikis Rama does not face any dilemma. He does not think at all. He acts at once. He acts as the Brahmins agent. He thinks that his duty as a king was to protect the socalled Varnashramadharma and defend the interest of Kshatriyas. To him safeguarding the interest of his citizens meant protecting the interest of Brahmins and Kshatriyas. Rama in Valmikis Ramayana is unconcerned and cunning in so far as Shudras and antyazas are concerned. It never occurs to him how could there be any relation between a Shudras mediatation and the death of a Brahmins child. Valmikis Rama sounds both irrational and partial.

    Bio-data: Name: Occupation: Institution Name: Area of research: Current paper on: Prakash C. balikai. Research Scholar Central university Of Karnataka Indian English Drama. CONTENT AND FORM IN DRAMA (With special on
    KUVEMPUS SHUDRA TAPASVI: A POSTMODERNIST STUDY)

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