was asked to replace him. A rehearsal was arranged and a mock trial was staged to make him understand the court procedure. A mock charge of infanticide was leveled against Miss Benare one of the members of the cast. Then the pretend-play suddenly turned into an accusatory game and it emerged from the witness that Miss Benare killed an out-of-wedlock child by Prof. Damle‚ the missing member of the cast. In Silence! The Court Is in Session; Vijay Tendulkar represents the futile struggle of a woman
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SILENCE! THE COURT IS IN SESSION By Vijay Tendulkar Study Material Prepared By Dr. Ratna Raman‚ Department of English‚ Sri Venkateswara College‚ Univ. of Delhi‚ Delhi. Edited By Dr. Anil Aneja‚ Department of English‚ School of Open Learning‚ Univ. of Delhi‚ Delhi – 110007. Prescribed for the Discipline Course in English For B.A. (Programme) IIIrd Year Students. 2 “SILENCE ! THE COURT IS IN SESSION” By VIJAY TENDULKAR Objectives Lesson Plan for the students of the BA Program‚ Elective English
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Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL) A Peer Reviewed International Journal - http://www.rjelal.com RESEARCH ARTICLE Vol.1.Issue.1.;2013 ISSN 2321 –3108 VIJAY TENDULKAR’S ‘SILENCE! THE COURT IS IN SESSION’: A MOCKERY AGAINST EXISTING JUDICIAL SYSTEM Dr. MEDIKONDA SAMBAIAH Assistant Professor in English‚ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ JNTUACEP‚YSR Kadapa (Dist)‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ India Mrs. KATUMALA SANDHYA Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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untouchables and how Gandhi fought for them to be equal. “Gandhi never sought to humiliate or defeat the whites in South Africa or the British in India . He wished to convert them. He hoped that if he practiced the Sermon on the Mount‚ General Jan Christiaan Smuts would remember he was a Christian.” (Fischer‚ pg. 35). Gandhi was a Christian who advocated for the Brahmins and the Untouchables to wed‚ he hoped that it would demolish
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Vijay Tendulkar’s works and society Post independence‚ the 50s and 60s were decades when a new India was being built. Every field was moving towards change. Marathi theatre too‚ which was hitherto trapped in melodrama and mediocrity‚ was moving towards this change. Veterans like Bhau Padhyay‚ Jayavant Dalvi and Vijay Tendulkar‚ among many more brought about this change. Journalist turned playwright‚ novelist‚ short story writer and screenplay writer‚ Vijay Tendulkar was known for his portrayal
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Part A – Describe the Buddha’s teaching on the nature and ending of Dukkha. The Four Noble Truths‚ Ariya-sacca‚ form the essence of the Buddha’s very first sermon which was delivered to the five ascetics in a deer park in Benares‚ after he had become enlightened. This sermon was called Dharmachakra Sutra which translates as “setting in motion the wheel of Dharma”‚ which were the Buddha’s teachings. The Four Noble Truths are called truths because‚ as well as being believed‚ they can be experienced
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Group 2 Team Paper 1 REL2300 July 2‚ 2010 Finding Inner Peace Being at peace with one’s inner self sounds inviting but some aspects of many different religions can be hard to grasp at times. While most religions influence others‚ some have ideas and beliefs from sources unknown. Hinduism and Budhism are two of many religions. Having many similarities‚ their differences are what make them unique. Hindus have many gods‚ polytheism‚ and Buddhist believe in finding one’s inner peace. They both
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find out that people even go to that river to die in hope that they will go to paradise. I should point out that the river is only sacred to Hindus. It was interesting to find out that each year‚ thousands of Hindu pilgrims visit such holy cities as Benares and Allahabad along the banks of the Ganges. They go there just to bathe in the river and to take home some of its water. The Ganges River is so important to the Indians that they call it "Ganga Mata" or Mother Ganges. It is also the greatest waterway
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writers. His works include more than a dozen novels‚ around 250 short stories‚ several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi. Biography Premchand was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi‚ a village located near Varanasi (Benares). His ancestors came from a large family‚ which owned six bighas of land.[3] His grandfather Gur Sahai Lal was a patwari (village accountant)‚ and his father Ajaib Lal was a post office clerk. His mother was Anand Devi of Karauni village‚ who could
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Primary Sources - Hinduism‚ Jainism‚ and Buddhism For more background information on religions see: http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/WHAP/Notes/foundations/wreligion.htm The Aryan invasion of the subcontinent around 1‚500 B.C.E. brought with it a new religion that featured a pantheon of gods that the Aryans worshiped through ritualism and with burnt sacrifices. Over the next thousand years‚ the religion matured‚ probably incorporating some elements of Harappan theology and certainly establishing
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