Habib Tanvir’s The Living Tale of Hirma : A Study in Folk Theatre

Abstract

Habib Tanvir, the Brecht - follower of folk theatre, is renowned for his most celebrated play ‘Charandas Chor’ echoes another ideology in his second well- read play ‘The Living Tale of Hirma’ asserting his borrowed thought- “ Material Circumstances determine consciousness rather than consciousness determining material reality”. The play isan in depth study of the psyche of cultural autonomous marginal unit affirming Habib Tanvir’s mindset that echoes what Mahasweta Devi, the icon champion of tribals in India once said- “ I am interested in history not only past history, but history that is being made”. (Kakitya Journal, 96).