Summary:
Tipu Sultan Kanda Kanasu explores the sense of loss and despair that the Indian disunited rulers underwent right up through the times of Tipu Sultan. As a playwright, he has already responded to two incidents — in Tale Danda and Tipu Sultan Kanda Kanasu. Titled Rakshasa-Tangadi, the play is now being printed, confirmed Samir Joshi of Manohara Granthamala, publisher of most of the works of Mr.
Karnad. Mr.
Karnad has dedicated this play to Mr.
Eaton and Krishna Kolhara Kulkarni, who helped him with documents on cultural and economic aspects of the Adil Shahi administration. Rakshasa-Tangadi is the fourth historical play by Mr.
Karnad, who has mastered the craft of blending the past and the present to make historical plays relevant to the present times..