© 2019. Chandra Shekhar Dubey. This is a research/review paper, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: A Arts & Humanities - Psychology Volume 19 Issue 7 Version 1.0 Year 2019 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Existential Humanistic Paradigm in Girish Karnad’s “Hayavadana” By Chandra Shekhar Dubey University of Delhi Abstract- This paper attempts to interrogate Girish Karnad’s ‘Hayavadana’ from the perspective of existentialism relating the protagonist to main concerns of existential paradigm such as freedom, choice, responsibility, finitude and death. Individual’s variety of responses to fear and anxieties forge a paradoxical identity which tries to avert the inevitability through human efforts and subverts the symbolic identity, to seek meaning in interpersonal relationship and life. Hayavadana engages with this dual reality of human being which Becker refers to “existential paradox’’. The way an individual conflates this paradox, has been analysed from the existential human paradigms which involves inner experiences, desires, memories and the sense of alienation. It further investigates the societal myth of an individual used by Karnad to locate a man in the larger human context. It further argues that Karnad poses a problem of identity in a world of tangled relationship. Keywords: existentialism, paradoxical identity, paradigms, alienation, futility. GJHSS-A Classification: FOR Code: 130205p ExistentialHumanisticParadigminGirishKarnadsHayavadana Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: