Tryst with destiny – The unchangeable fate By Rinku Khumukcham

Director cum playwright Yumnam Rajen of ‘Panthoibi Natya Mandir, Imphal’ is perhaps one of the many person who believed in destiny of life by fate and not by efforts as it had always been depicted by the ancient Greek philosophers. At one of his play, “Taramdai Korou” (The setting Sun) he pictured human destiny as an unchangeable journey. At that play he tried to show that a born unfortunate is always unfortunate till his end. The series of events that is assigned to him will continues as unchanged, though he tried to change that with all his effort. Being experienced for more than 20 or more years in the field of theatre as artist, playwright and director, his simple presentation of arguing his ideological theory at his production “Taramdai Korou” (The Setting Sun) is strong enough to persuade the viewers.