Girish Karnad one of the greatest playwrights of all times used his plays as a receptacle that held the myths and mindset of India at once. The ennui of modern man and especially the women as it comes up in his plays balance the age-old tradition and the writing back to it. The protagonist women in the plays as Hayavadana and Naga-Mandala unlike the women tortured or exploited in a male-dominated society express their will. The will-to-power makes the realization of their desires possible. The two women, Padmini and Rani in these plays show a curious graph, where each woman possesses two men and while they are possessed by the one, as the society would have it, they possess the other as their heart would desire.