Vijay Tendulkar Essays

themselves from society through escaping their oppressive environment. In The Woman in the Dunes, Abe explicitly points out Niki’s fieldwork as an escape by saying “Many disappearances, for example, may be described as simple escape” (1). Similarly, Murakami also clarifies Mari’s behavior as an escape through Takahashi’s question to her: "You're not a runaway, are you?” (35). Faced with a hostile environment and unable to communicate with others effectively, Niki and Mari choose to withdraw from

Aspects of power in Sakharam Binder: The study of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays gives us idea that the dramatists deals with actual incident in Indian community. In his plays, he was concerned with the means of power effects of oppression manifested in different forms, he lash out the institution of marriage, hypocrisy of the society. Whatever his predicament, it is obvious that he plays the power game through his elitist discourse to subvert the Indian Folk style and is reluctant to make his position

The life of Indian married women is totally based on various types of compulsions. Both plays raise certain cardinal questions regarding the value system of a modern man who is ready to sacrifice human values in the name of humanity itself. Vijay Tendulkar only highlights the condition of married woman but doesn’t give any suggestions or solutions. Henrik Ibsen provides a revolutionary key to women who wish to preserve their self-respect in the contemporary life of the English society.