About The Event
Tughlaq, written by Late. Girish Karnad is a political allegory. The play is at once both historical and contemporary, it`s modern and universal in its appeal.
The play depicts him a man of ideals having a grand vision but his reign was an abject failure. His rule that began with ideals of a unified India soon vitiated into anarchy.
The series of his failed uncanny governance ideas made his beloved ones commemorated him as `Mad Mohammad` and which also brought deep disillusionment and alienation in him which he never admitted.
Some of the secondary characters represent a section of those astute people who identify and exploit the flaws in every law so that they can gain maximum out of it.
The play presents Tughlaq a thinker who sets out with a perspective of `creating a better world for everyone`, but ironically enough ended as `Demented & Tyrant Ruler
