25-Jul-2017

The Good City| Yayati projects women’s sexuality

'Yayati projects women’s sexuality – Girish Karnad '

Girish Karnad: “I wrote Yayati, my first play, in 1960, and it happened when I was set to go to Oxford on a scholarship.The elders in the family were worried about my trip. Those days, the journey to UK took three weeks by ship. They were anxious that I would be away from home for three years, and they cautioned me against ‘white’ women. I was 22 years old; I was very defiant those days and wanted to break away from the fetters of family. I was a student of Mathematics, I had not focused on literature yet. Suddenly out of nowhere, Yayati, the play, came to me in Kannada. I was like a stenographer, writing it down feverishly.

 

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