Girish Karnad with genuine social concern condemns the formidable breaches and prevailing differences that have formed the infrastructure upon which social hegemony operates. The aim of this paper is to focus upon the playwright's attempt to relate an incident far off in time and space as a sequel to the domain of conflicting ideologies that completely silhouettes the possibility of equality in the present socio-political scenario. Tale-Danda is an exemplary masterpiece in employing historic actuality in a literary text which resounds with multilayered meaning and addresses humanity which still remains divided