EXISTENTIAL DILEMMA IN LABHSHANKAR THAKAR’S PILU GULAB ANE HU (Pages 19-26) by Ms. Divya A. Mehta in THE ENGLISH INDIA / ISSN: 2321-1172 (Online); 2347-2634 (Print)

In the drama Pilu Gulab ane Hu by Labhshankar Thakar, Sandhya, after going through the torturous mental conflict, loses her sanity and behaves like a statue and this anguish of hers cannot easily be realized by anyone else. This lonesomeness while defying this anguish and the extreme sentiments are the characteristics of Labhshankar Thakar’s objective perception of agonizing and dilemmatic human existence. Being a subtle personality, suffering somehow, is inescapable. The thoughtful mind and empathetic heart produce agony and that is the sum of dilemmatic human existence realized by Labhshankar Thakar and Sandhya.n the drama Pilu Gulab ane Hu by Labhshankar Thakar, Sandhya, after going through the torturous mental conflict, loses her sanity and behaves like a statue and this anguish of hers cannot easily be realized by anyone else. This lonesomeness while defying this anguish and the extreme sentiments are the characteristics of Labhshankar Thakar’s objective perception of agonizing and dilemmatic human existence. Being a subtle personality, suffering somehow, is inescapable. The thoughtful mind and empathetic heart produce agony and that is the sum of dilemmatic human existence realized by Labhshankar Thakar and Sandhya.Keywords: Existential dilemma, void, numbness, mental conflict, agony, anxiety, consciousness