![]() Vijay Tendulkar was no stranger to controversy. Yet again, as is now normal, brutishness, ignorance, violence, and ugliness triumphed over empathy, tolerance, understanding, humour and art. All the familiar tropes of hurt sentiments, religious pride, law and order, and threat to peace were deployed, with predictable results. They were, however, convinced that the plays were ‘anti-Hindu and anti-Indian culture’, handiwork of the ‘ tukde tukde gang’. ![]() The objectors had neither seen nor read the plays. Predictably, the police and administration refused to provide assurance of safety, effectively siding with the aggressors. The Bajrang Dal found the title of another play, Besharammev Jayate (‘Shamelessness Triumphs’), by Prema Janmejaya, to also be objectionable. ![]() Jaat Hi Poochho Sadhu Ki (‘Birth Alone Matters’), which was to be staged in the IPTA festival at Chhattarpur in Madhya Pradesh angered them because of the title. A play of his has incurred the wrath of the Bajrang Dal. The Marathi playwright and screenwriter Vijay Tendulkar (1928–2008), a giant of modern Indian letters, is again in the news. ![]()
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