Bharatsingh Rao
The unchecked growing urbanization in the metropolises
like Bangalore at the cost of ecology is a matter of grave concern for mankind
as it has been one of the most detrimental factors to environment and a major
contributing factor too to global warming and its corollary adverse effects to
ecosystem. The urban authorities too hardly ever have a genuine concern for the
irreparable damage being caused to the environment in the haphazard
implementation of the town planning schemes. On the other hand, the urban
dwellers are incessantly in blind pursuit of materialistic affluence hence they
too are alarmingly heedless to the future ecological hazards which will be inherited
to their progenies. The so called urban development needs a profound
introspection for one and all. Karnad has rightly endeavored to share his
concern in this regard in one of his later plays Boiled Beans On Toast which deals with the concurrent problem of
India. The issue of the chasm between the haves and have-nots in this
insensitive civilization also comes to the fore by the by. The growing problem
of traffic which is the cause of noise and air pollution is also brought forth
in the play.
Metropolitan,
globalization, urbanization, elite, environment, trees
VOL.15, ISSUE No.1, March 2023