LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 15:7 July 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Incestuous Relations in Silence! The Court is in Session
and Thirty Days has September:
A Comparative Study

Surya Prakash, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Silence!

Abstract

Nobody could deny that the safest place for children is their home and the most trusted people in life of children are their parents and siblings but the media and government reports indicate that it is no longer true now. The mask of Indian tradition and culture hides increasing number and variety of heinous crimes of incestuous relations. There was self-denial about these crimes in our communities. This pathetic condition is noticed by literary giants like Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani who could not ignore it and so they presented the situation to alarm and warn the people through their plays. The present article is an attempt to investigate how Tendulkar and Dattani have handled the incest in their plays Silence! The Court is in Session and Thirty Days Has September.

Keywords: Paedophilia, CSA, Leviticus, molestation, psyche, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Incest, Incestuous, exploitation, trauma.

Frequent Occurrence of Incest

Each and every day, the news of incestuous relations and sexual abuse of children is pouring down in Indian media, which exposes the alarming vicious situation prevailing in the country. However, people and government behave like an ostrich and pretend to be ignorant of the reality. The reports presented by MDCD in 2007, RAHI in 2013 and other government agencies as well as NGOs indicate that in Indian society the relations which were considered very pious and trust worthy are no longer secure now. The playwrights Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani who represent two different era have also raised this issue in their plays. The effort of Tendulkar and Dattani along with the NGOs is eye-opening and leads us to create a better and more secured place for the children and women so that they can really have the freedom and pleasure of life and they can break the silence.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Surya Prakash

Surya Prakash, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi-221005
Uttar Pradesh
India
suryaprakashgupt@gmail.com
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