Holistic Development in the Social Scenario in Girish Karnad’s Tale-Dande

This present study examines the relevance of the Varna system of India which was in the past hailed as an ideal one, and later reduced to a system of the lower castes to the limit of untouchability and discrimination. Karnad analyses the socio-religious perspectives in the society. He chooses history and myth to present and represent a contemporary problem mirroring the social scenario of India today. It emphasizes the love of humanity and brotherhood of man to accept human-beings as human beings, to give them respect and social status and not to divide our society into factions on the basis of cast and creed.