KANYADAAN: TRANSLATED BY JAYASHREE DESHMUKH

Vijay Tendulkar has made a remarkable contribution to modern Indian theatre along with Mohan Rakesh, Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad. A Prolific writer, he often portrayed socio-political problems in his plays. Kanyadaan, one of his most fascinating and relevant plays, depicts the conflict between the upper-class and the Dalits. And as a creative genius, he does not take sides. Kanyadaan is a complex play about the cultural and emotional upheavals of a family. It deals with the violence in the subconscious of a Dalit poet who is married to the daughter of a naive socialist. Here Tendulkar considers an act of social upliftment and, unlike other playwrights, sets out clearly the chaotic consequences of disturbing the existing social equations. The finely-layered play is "the exploration of a social terrain that is a minefield atop an unstable ammunition dump," says the Indian Review of Books.

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