KANYADAAN (OIP)
Price: 245.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195663808
Publication date:
16/09/2002
Paperback
80 pages
216x140mm
Price: 245.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195663808
Publication date:
16/09/2002
Paperback
80 pages
Gowri Ramnarayan
A young woman from a politically active family that regards itself as progressive decides to marry a socially inferior, but talented, man. Tendulkar explores the texture of modernity and social change in India through the forces this marriage unleashes.
Rights: World Rights
Gowri Ramnarayan
Description
A young woman from a politically active family that regards itself as progressive decides to marry a socially inferior, but talented, man. Tendulkar explores the texture of modernity and social change in India through the forces this marriage unleashes. This award-winning play?tense, gripping, and charged with an undercurrent of violence, uncertainties, and anger?concerns itself with questions that are crucial to all societies grappling with change and social barriers.
About the Author
Translated by Gowri RamnarayanVijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of Indian theatre for almost 40 years. This play, translated from the original Marathi, is one of his most gripping, socially relevant ones.
Cover visuals: (front) Illustration by Bhaskar Sen
Gowri Ramnarayan
Review
?Tightly written ? the conflicts capture the raw and complex reality of life.?
?The Hindu
?The play is finely layered ? the exploration of a social terrain that is a minefield atop an unstable ammunition dump. ? Gowri Ramnarayan?s translation is extremely competent.?
?Indian Review of Books
Gowri Ramnarayan
Description
A young woman from a politically active family that regards itself as progressive decides to marry a socially inferior, but talented, man. Tendulkar explores the texture of modernity and social change in India through the forces this marriage unleashes. This award-winning play?tense, gripping, and charged with an undercurrent of violence, uncertainties, and anger?concerns itself with questions that are crucial to all societies grappling with change and social barriers.
About the Author
Translated by Gowri RamnarayanVijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of Indian theatre for almost 40 years. This play, translated from the original Marathi, is one of his most gripping, socially relevant ones.
Cover visuals: (front) Illustration by Bhaskar Sen
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