Madness of Speech: Truth, Power, and the Birbal Way
摘要
The last chapter provides a critical analysis of Birbal’s ability to decipher a situation by using his sharp intelligence and sense of humour that made him earn a distinguished position—one of the nine gems of Emperor Akbar’s court. Birbal’s ‘fearless speech’ and argumentative narrative logic that reinterprets the law and the outlaw and promotes novel ways of understanding justice are also discussed in the course of this chapter. This chapter depicts his art of conversation, diplomatic imagination, and its entanglement with laughter and humour; and this shows how this performance lends him the iconic identity of a superhero by way of bringing justice for people.