The intervening years, since the plays were written, provides us with that advantage. To discuss such a figure and his equally well-known works, most of which have generated so much intellectual debate and controversy, one requires a temporal distance-a separation in time-to be able to understand and evaluate them in clear perspective. Winner of several national and international awards and fellowships, he is both a venerated and a controversial figure in the country's theatre scene. His Silence! the Court is in Session earned him a place among leading Indian playwrights in the late sixties while his Ghasiram Kotwal won him international fame in the mid-seventies. Beginning his career as a dramatist in the mid-fifties, this prolific writer has twenty-eight full length plays, twenty-four one-act plays, and eleven children's dramas to his credit, a good number of which have been translated and produced in major Indian languages. Vijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of not just Marathi but Indian theatre for almost forty years. Recipient of numerous prestigious award such as the Padma Bhusan, the Vishnudas Bhave Memorial Award, and the Ketha Chudamani Award, for successfully raising social issue through his plays, Tendulkar was one of the greatest playwrights of our times. Several of his plays have become in many Indian languages. He has more than fifty publication to his credit. Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator. Encounter in Umbugland is a political satire. Kamala is an indictment of the success-oriented male society where women are mere steppingstone for the achievement of men Silence! The court is in Session combines social criticism with personal tragedy Skharam Binder explore the complications of human nature, two necessary components of which are sex and violence and The Vulture depicts the economic and moral degeneration of a family. This volume brings together five critically acclaimed plays, each with a distinct character and message.
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