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The play Maaya has an echo on environment.
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The Telugu University’s theatre arts department presented Atreya’s play titled Maaya at the university’s auditorium last week. Maaya is a mythological theme but bearing contemporary social comme
nt. The problem dealt with, in this, was depletion of water sources and droughts affecting the land. The play argues that giving water to the living beings is more important than the sages doing penance in forests to attain Moksha (Salvation). Here he took the characters of sage Vibhandaka and his son Rushyasrunga. At one time there was dearth for water and the land was gripped with famine. ‘ Mother Earth’ sends Goddess ‘Maaya’ to sage Rushyasrunga to invite him to this parched land of Dasaratha. It is said that which ever place Rushyasringa visited, there was rainfall, land became fertile and yielded crop. Maaya succeeds in convincing Rushyasrunga to move to the land of Dasaratha. Vibhandaka, who had no knowledge of this, gets upset. However, ‘Maaya’ argues with him and pacifies him saying that the end result of any penance is welfare of people of the land. This play was directed by Padmapriya.
G.S.
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