This is the concluding part of Saketam. The play ends with the death of Dasarathan, who dies peacefully visualising ‘a sun that out grows the firmament.’ Act III Sutradharan: The huge drums have frozen to silence in Ayodhya. Like shadows…
Act One of Saketam is set in Ayodhya, at the very dramatic moment when Sri Raman is declared the crown prince. The evocative description of how Kosalam should be decorated and the list of things that Vasishtan requires…
Characters Dasarathan Vasishtan Sumanthrar Guhan SreeRaman Lakshmanan Sutradharan Kausalya Kaikeyi Sita Mandhara atha kena prayukto ‘yam pâpam charati pûrushah anichchhann api vârshneya balâd iva niyojitah (The Bhagavad Gita. III-36. Then impelled by what does man lead such a life of…
Volume II number 2 and volume III number 1 of Samyukta carried Act I and Act II of Lanka Lakshmi, Sri C.N. Sreekantan Nair’s dramatic rendering of the war episodes of the Ramayana from the point of view of Ravana…
