I don’t think I will ever write a play that will be devoid of any political statement: Playwright Kaustubh Naik | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

I don’t think I will ever write a play that will be devoid of any political statement: Playwright Kaustubh Naik | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express



Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: March 31, 2019 10:34:23 am

I don’t think I will ever write a play that will be devoid of any political statement: Playwright Kaustubh Naik

Kaustubh Naik on Avyahat, which won top honours at a state-level theatre competition, playwriting and the importance of ideology.

A scene from Avyahat.

The war is over. Let peace be enforced. Emperor Ashoka, in the play Avyahat, chooses to do this by making Buddhism the state religion. In a monastery, meanwhile, a monk called Upali is reeling from the violence of the Kalinga war and feels compelled to revisit the Buddha by writing his biography. War prisoner Bhima, who belongs to a forest-dwelling community, finds himself on the outskirts of society and the political discourse. When the compulsions of these three protagonists collide, the shadow of war threatens to grows longer.