TY - BOOK AU - Girish Karnad TI - The fire and the rain SN - 9780195644432 U1 - 894.812 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford university press KW - Kannada play KW - Kannada literature KW - English translation N1 - translated from kannada N2 - This play by one of India s foremost playwrights and actors is based on a story from the Mahabharata which tellingly illuminates universal themes - alienation, loneliness, love, family, hatred - through the daily lives and concerns of a whole community of individuals ER -