Tukra's Dream

Our hero Tukra doesn�t belong to any of the known categories of heroes mentioned in the Natyashastra. He is like a shape formed out of the discarded organs of other people. A ready wit and an even readier tongue are his only weapons of defence.

He is patriot, traitor, thief, womaniser. Everyone knows him yet he doesn�t have a social identity. Thus, he compares himself with a blade of grass, so much so that it is difficult to uproot him. Tukra�s Dream then, is the Song of the Grass. The play has been translated from the original Kannada by O L Nagabhushana Swamy.