Vijay Tendulkar’s Play Kamala: A Symbol of Slavery

Authors

  • Dr. Pramila Pandey

Keywords:

Realistic play, Kamala, Vijay Tendulkar, Slavery

Abstract

Kamala is a naturalistic play by Vijay Tendulkar. It focuses on the changed role of women in society. It was inspired by a real-life incident-the Indian Express exposure by Ashwin Sarin, who actually bought a girl from a rural flesh market and presented her at a press conference. But using this incident as a launching pad, Tendulkar raises certain cardinal questions regarding the value system of a modern success-oriented generation who is ready to sacrifice human values in the name of humanity itself. The playwright exposes the innate self-deception of this standpoint. The paper analyses the background of the play and its contents to assert that Kamala is not merely a play to read or watch but a living person through whom the reader shall experience the slavery system.

References

Willeman, Paul & Ashish Rajadhyaksha. 1999. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. p. 410. London: British Film Institute.

Sridhar, Madabhuhi. 2002. ICFAI Journal of Intellectual Property Rights. (Available on website: www.icfai.org)

Raturi, Prachi. 2000. Interview with Vijay Tendulkar: I shouldn't have been a writer. Indian Express.

Tendulkar, Vijay. 1995. Five Plays. Delhi: Oxford University Press, p. 47.

Tendulkar, Vijay. 1972. The Second Sex. Trans. H.M. Parshley. New York: Penguin. p. 291.

Ambedkar, Dr. Babasaheb.1987. Writings and Speeches Vol. 3. Bombay: Education Dept. Govt. of Maharashtra, p. 431.

Kumar, Geeta.1994. “Portrayal of Women in Tendulkar's Shantata! Court Chalu ahe and Sakharam Binder” in New Directions in Indian Drama. Ed. S. Pandey and F. Barua. New Delhi: Prestige Books, p. 29.

Bahadur, Sona.1999. "The Legend Edures" in The Indian Express Front Page, Wednesday October 20, 1999 (available on the website www.expressindia.com).

Bahadur, Sona.1999. "The Legend Edures" in The Indian Express Front Page, Wednesday October 20, 1999 (available on the website www.expressindia.com).

Downloads

Published

01.10.2011

How to Cite

Pramila Pandey. (2011). Vijay Tendulkar’s Play Kamala: A Symbol of Slavery. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 3(2), 20–27. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL030206

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2011): October

Section

Research Articles

License

Articles are the intellectual property of the authors. The Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature does not take ownership of the copyright of any published article. Authors retain the copyright to their articles and may republish these articles as part of a book or other materials. However, while republishing an article published in JTREL, the author must ensure that the following conditions have been met:

  • The source of the publication (the title, volume, number and URL of the Journal) should be acknowledged.
  • The article will remain published on the JTREL website (except on the occasion of a retraction of the article) and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
  • We do not allow the distribution and transmission of plagiaristic works based on the articles that appear in our journal.
  • Readers may not use the articles for commercial purposes unless they get the written permission of the author and publisher. To disseminate copies for commercial purposes, write to editor.JTREL@gmail.com