"Maili Chadar, or The Stained Shawl" and "Truth and Justice"
Regular price
€19.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Shanta Gokhale
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Shanta Gokhale
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DD
COP=United Kingdom
corruptionofpower
darksideofpower
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
feminism
Gujaratriots
historicalfiction
humancostofinjustice
indianliterature
indiantheatre
internationalliterature
Language_English
LasanthaWickrematunge
LucieDreyfus
monologue
newindianplaywrights
PA=Available
politicaldrama
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
questforpower
softlaunch
SriLanka
struggleforjustice
theatre
uncheckedpower
voicesofvictims
womensrights
ZaheeraShaikh
Product details
- ISBN 9781803093185
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 152 x 191mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Two plays exploring the dark side of power and the human cost of injustice.
What is the fate of justice when morality is subservient to power? What happens when people in power lose their moral compass, and truth becomes a casualty? This volume brings together two recent plays by eminent Indian theater personality Shanta Gokhale that address these burning questions.
Maili Chadar; or, The Stained Shawl: A Tragedy in Four Acts traces the regression of the protagonist from the idealism of his youth to the cynicism of a man who has but one goal in life—power at all costs. Along the way, he develops a megalomanic sense of destiny for which he is willing to lose all that he has ever loved, in the process becoming an exemplar of the proverbial worm in the apple called democracy. In Truth and Justice: Four Monologues, women from different places and times speak of what men in power have done to them in the name of their hatred for the other—from the Dreyfus affair that rocked France in the nineteenth century to the deadly communal riots in Gujarat and the Sri Lankan Civil War in the early twenty-first century.
What is the fate of justice when morality is subservient to power? What happens when people in power lose their moral compass, and truth becomes a casualty? This volume brings together two recent plays by eminent Indian theater personality Shanta Gokhale that address these burning questions.
Maili Chadar; or, The Stained Shawl: A Tragedy in Four Acts traces the regression of the protagonist from the idealism of his youth to the cynicism of a man who has but one goal in life—power at all costs. Along the way, he develops a megalomanic sense of destiny for which he is willing to lose all that he has ever loved, in the process becoming an exemplar of the proverbial worm in the apple called democracy. In Truth and Justice: Four Monologues, women from different places and times speak of what men in power have done to them in the name of their hatred for the other—from the Dreyfus affair that rocked France in the nineteenth century to the deadly communal riots in Gujarat and the Sri Lankan Civil War in the early twenty-first century.
Shanta Gokhale is an Indian writer, translator, journalist, and theater critic. She is best known for her works Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi.
