A petitioner in Krishna’s court
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A performance of the Kathakali play Santhanagopalam saw spectators moved by a bereaved father’s anguish
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A scene from the Kathakali play Santhanagopalam
A performance of the Kathakali play Santhanagopalam saw spectators moved by a bereaved father’s anguish
The Kathakali plays composed between the 17th and early 20th centuries with stories drawn from the epics deal with the myriad mortal sentiments, interspersed with divine interventions. Some are easily comprehensible, even to the uninitiated. One such play is Mandavappally Ittiraricha Menon’s
Santhanagopalam, which unfolds the anguish of a Brahmin who walks into Dwaraka with the corpse of his newborn son, lamenting his fate and presenting his grievances to Krishna.