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Mrigavati
-a drama on a Queen's emancipation
P. C. DASGUPTA
Perhaps, a drama glows with the light of the unseen world when it combines a delicate style with feelings of the inherent grace of mankind in its expression of love and longing for emancipation. The harmony of values is as symbolic as the exposition of Pythagoras. Thoughts and appreciation have their own value in respective perspectives. As the 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes put it, "I think, therefore I exist." (Cogito ergo sum).
In its own canvass the theme of Mrigavati conveys a truth which may be searched for in the world of nature and consciousness for discovering the identity of the self in the light of realisation and surrender. The purity and devotion of Mrigavati, the widow queen of king Satanika of Kausambi were finally offered to the feet of Mahavira, the Jina of eternal. light by the composer of the drama Sri Ganesh Lalwani. The entire drama sometimes scintillating with the absorbing grace of an operette
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