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Volume : I, Issue : III, April - 2011

New-Morality in Girish Karnad's 'Tale-Danda'

Shivaji Shankar Kamble

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Bhalchandra Nemade, a serious critic, advanced the term New Morality as a modern literary value to set a very high premium on the morality of the writer. Nemade dichotomizes morality into two divisions viz. old morality and new morality which is more akin to Mahatma Phule's true morality and false morality, expressed in his book entitled "Sarvajanik Satya Dharm" (The Universal Religion of Truth). According to Phule, Morality, as expressed in Ramayana and Bhagavata is unreal, untrue and unbelievable; however, what annoys Phule here is false and unreal morality of spurious, wicked and bogus scriptures. For example, in an imaginative (romantic) Ramayana, Ravana had ten noses, twenty eyes, twenty ears and twenty hands but only one anus and two legs. It seems unnatural and magical. Phule objects Seeta Swayamwara (system of choosing bridegroom); Rama's being monogramous, on the ground of false morality and prefers true morality in Aesop's stories.

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Shivaji Shankar Kamble, (2011). New-Morality in Girish Karnad's 'Tale-Danda'. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. III, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/128.pdf

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  1. Karnad, Girish (1993) Tale-Danda, Paper back edition 2004, Ravi Dayal Publisher, Delhi
  2. Nemade Bhalchandra, (1978) New Morality in Contemporary Marathi Fiction, Vagartha No. 18 and Indian Literature Sept-Oct. 1978

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