give an introductory note on hayavadana by Girish Kannad.
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The plays of Girish Karnad often have a thematic focus on the basic issues that concern the existential problem of an individual in the postcolonial modern Indian society. Gender is an important social construct that keep on modifying the existential space of an individual. Karnad very dexterously pictures the condition of a typical Indian female, ruled by the patriarchal order bounded by tradition, but whose spirit remains unbounded. His employment of the myth and old tales are to focus on the absurdity of modern life with all its conflicts.
In this relation, Girish Karnad comments in the Introduction to Three Plays: Nagamandala, Hayavadana, Tughlaq: My generation was the first to come of age after India became independent of British rule. It therefore had to face a situation in which tensions implicit until then had come out in the open and demanded to be resolved without apologia or self-justifications, tensions between the cultural past of the country and its colonial past, between the attractions of western modes of thought and our own traditions, and finally between the various visions of the future that opened up once that common cause of political freedom was achieved.