Girish Karn ad has composed numerous plays to tackle contemporary issues. Karnad likes to split the persona, present a conflict and urge a confrontation between dualities. He does this in all his plays. The present study analy ses conflict, tension and duality in Karnes’s The Fire and The Rain. It is a dense, intellectually ambitious autumnal play . The play is structured around ideas and excess of strangled relationships, which unfolds with a rare economy and intensity of emotions. Conflict is defined as a struggle betw een two or more individuals over perceived incompatible differences in beliefs, values, and goals, or over differences in desires for esteem, control, and connectedness. These differences are a constant breeding ground for conflict. Conflict has been studi ed from multiple perspectives, including inter-personal conflict and intra -personal conflict. Duality arises out of conflict. As the title of the play The Fire and The Rain suggests the play focuses on the negative and positive human emotions – jealousy , betrayal, deceit as well as selfless love. The play presents the celebration of fire with V edic rituals for the appeasement of the divine, peace and happiness of the mankind. But just behind the screen of the art, Karnad associates the aesthetics of Brahman ism with the mind games of egocentrism. All the lead characters in the play; Raibhya, Bharadwaja, Paravasu, Arvasu, Yavakri and Vishakha are involved in the practice of evil and sin. There is the cycle of evil in the play which leads to conflict among the characters of the play . Virtue wins in the play . But it is too late. The death of virtuous low caste girl, Nittilai, makes it a tragedy . The play is the fine analysis of human Page 108  Labyrinth : ISSN 0976-0814 (Vol.8 - No.2, July 2017) psyche in the depiction of jealousy of man against man, father against son, brot her against brother, wife against husband, and high caste against low caste. Conflict is an inevitable part of the play The Fire and The Rain