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Women in Asif Currimbhoyas Plays
Among the most creative playwrights of the Postcolonial era, Asif Currimbhoy is one of the known personalities with his creative pen. He has written and published more than thirty plays. He reveals variety of themes with intelligent characterization in his plays. Social and political issues are the major themes represented by Currimbhoy in most of his plays. His plays are necessarily “Emotional Reaction†of what he feels and sees around him. His plays deal not only with wide ranging of thematic concerns but are also peopled with different characters. Asif Currimbhoyg
Art and Artist in Asif Currimbhoys Thorns on a Canvas
In this play Thorns on a Canvas Asif Currimbhoy tries to show the relationship between an elite patron of the Art academy and the poor artists like Yakoob and Nafisa. He also depicts the pathetic condition of the artists, especially of those who are true and honest in their work. Through some characters he reveals the same. He has also written about the Art academies which are alike a shop now a day. Through this play he shows the relationship is a variation of colonizers/ colonized syndrome.
