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Vijay Tendulkar in his Play, ‘Silence'! The Court is in Session’ , highlights the character, Miss Benare. Do you think the plight of women in Indian Societies is still the same? Discuss​

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Sukhatme thus argues that Benare “has made a heinous blot on the sacred brow of motherhood.” Though this is done in the mock trial, it resonates with Benare’s real life situation as a woman pregnant out of wedlock. Her “crime” is made worse by her intention to raise the child while unmarried, thereby asserting a sense of feminine independence. Whether or not the characters are all aware of Benare’s situation, there is clearly genuine resentment bolstering their savage mock trial attacks. The other characters see Benare—an unwed yet content and independent woman in her thirties—as a subversion of cultural norms and criticize her over the course of the play for running “after men too much” and acting outside the “moral conduct of a normal unmarried woman.” Although they rarely say it explicitly, they also assume motherhood takes place only within the context of marriage, and fear that, if women begin to have children outside of marriage, the whole institution—including men’s authority—will crumble.

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