Socio-Political Issues in The Select Plays of Vijay Tendulkar

Abstract

In the post-independent era, the Indian drama has undergone some significant changes with the changed social system, values and export-import of views. Cultural, political, socio-economic, moral changes of society have introduced different scopes of theme and style to Indian Drama. From the forth decade of twentieth century the sense of realism came into the Marathi drama as a reaction of the problems those have been faced by the modern society. In this period new additions to themes with various new experiments on style, Vijay Tendulkar has prolonged the area of Marathi Drama. Vijay Tendulkar, the well-known Marathi playwright has received a national repute for his thought provoking plays. Specially, Tendulkar tackles the issues of politics in several of his plays. This study is an attempt to analyses the Socio-political issues in three major political plays by Tendulkar.