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Silence ! The Court is in Session

1. Justify the title ofthe play. Or
Significance of the title in the play "silence ! The Court is in Sesi
sion",

play has been taken from our law courts, Tho.

Ans. This title of the
the basic orders in any court room. The Judge
in any court room s
are
Whenever any chaos appears inn the these
order and discipline. the
roomn to
.

diturb thebring
words to
concentration of deciding authorities the judge in the room utere.
silence is the integral part of the roo
words with real meanings. Because
any hearing keeps on going. These words also shows the apex power of the a
in the court room and every one present there has to follow the command dge
As far as the title in the play by vijay Tendulkar is concerened, he used
this
title so that every reader or audience in the theatre might give a proper attenti
on
to the play since the play had a significant impact on the society where we liv
Through this play Vijay Tendulkar has showed the main system of society whick
is a patriarchal system. And this system is a bias system to some extendwhere
woman finds herself powerless to express her open minded thoughts in a society
where she lives and spends her whole life. If we want any kind of pure justice
then we need a system in which the judge and the judicial system are objectively
detached. Human vaiues and compassion are essential to keep the system away
from dehumanization. In this play we find how Ms. Benare becomes the victim of
sadism of her male counterparts.
Play within the play in a mock court-Silence! The Court is in Session is a
play within a play. The whole play is centered an a trial, on a mock trial. There is a
group of some amateur actors. They belong to the Sonar Moti Tenement Progressive
Association Mumbai. Thisgroup want to stage a play whohas an international value.
It is about American president who has produced nuclear weapons for his country
and this is a world wide threat. The group is going to stage a play in the evening
on the selected place in a subvillage. They have ample of time for the main play
There is a character in the play named Samant. Samant is not a play artist or stage
artist. He is a villager and new to this play culture. He has a curiosity about court
and its procedure. In order to tell him about court and its procedure and due to
lack of members, he is taken in the play as a witness. Now this group is
plus one characters ard these are Miss. Benare, Mr and Mrs. Kashikar, Sakhatme
Ponkshe, Balu Rodke, Karnik and Samant. A mock court is
the eldest person in the play pertorm the
arranged. Mr Kasnu
part of the judge. Miss Benare is puu
down the accused, Sukhatme plays the duel role of counselor for the
as well as the detence, all others are witnesses. All
proseutrial
get agree to have a moc the
Miss Binare is a school teacher who is shown very
happy in the play berorc
mock trial gets its speed.
Real court Vs mock court enviornment-Since the ial in
play is all about the tria
a court so we see an enviroment of a court in the lescipline. is
play but not in all des ught
different from the real court scene. It is not as serious and disciplined as it oug
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to be in real. The judge is chewing a pan and leaves his seat to spit out the juice of
pan. He also keeps picking his teeth and ears. On this Miss Binare raises question
is a court of law or a spitting contest. Mr.
to her prosecutor Sukhatme whether it
Kashikar leaves the court room and goes to the inner room to get himself relieved
during the on going session. He keeps on scolding his wife whenever he gets
oppartunities. Sukhatme is playing duel role one is of counsel for the prosecution
and the other is of the defence. He is a smoker who smokes beedi constantly and
argue in a theatrical manner. Ponkshe is also a smoker who is the first witness. He
also enjoys his pipe. Balu Rokde is the adopted child of Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar. He
has brought Oxford English Dictionary instead of bringing the Bhagvad Geeta. As
a result of this error every witness swears by the dictionary. This situations makes
Miss Binare laugh too much. Kashikar the Judge bangs his gavel repeatedly on
the table to reprimand the accused, whom he and Sukhatme, acting as counsel for
the procecution keep calling "Prisoner Mis Benare." So we see that there is a big
difference between real and mock court.
Ms. Binare, the victim of male counter parts-We see it very clearly that Ms.
Benare becomes the victim of sadism of her male counterparts. At the beginning
most of the characters compete to be the accused in the mock trial. But after some
time in the absence of Miss Benare Sukhatme gives a suggestion that Miss Benare is

going to be the accused. Miss Benare is not aware about all this as soon she
enters
the hall singing and wiping her face on a towel, Ponkshe calls her "Miss Leela
Benare you have been arrested on suspicion of a crime of an extremely grave nature
and brought as a prisoner before the bar of this court. Kashikar, who is playing
the role of a megistrate accuses Benare of the crime of infanticide. This scene is a
Benare
fantastic example of the functioning of the patriarchal system in which Miss
the dock
is accused without. her consent in a play. Now we find Miss Benare on
stiffens
under the judicious gaze of patriarchal society. A cheerful lady Miss Benare
as the charge of in fanticide is pronounced against he. She suggests them to replace
the charge of infanticide with snatching public property. But Mr. Kashikar says
that the charge of infanticide is important from the social point of view: Gradually
moves forward from simple mock
trial to a serious trial which enters
the plays with the baby of
the private life of Miss Benare. It is exposed that she is pregnant
sexual relation with Damle.
professor Damle and finding some one to cover her
dhe is a unwed mother. She has sucidial intentions
that is why she keeps Tik-20 a
who has already tried
of an insecticide in her purse every time. She is lady
a
Dottle in love with her maternal uncle arnd
Sucide when she was in her teenage. She fell
TO of her house but she survived. Again she
t was a sin. She threw herself off a parapet
Professor Damle. Because of Professor
Damle's
ell in love with a married person, last she was wrong Damle was only
ntelligency she fell in love with him but at one by one and she shouts
in her body. The charges against her popped
ersted too much. Miss Benare was
everyone the trial because it was hurting her
oOW ike a beast trapped and hunters were teasing her brutally.
to stop
mock court comes to its verdict that
Final decision of the court-Now the
Miss her all morality. She has violated the pureness
Benare is guilty. She has lost
in context of a mother. She is a public
arriage and is a stigma on our society,
birth to the baby who is surviving in
n y number one, She has no right to give She all
her womb and and this child must be destroyed. No o n e hears Miss Benare. isher
aloneomb
child on
that she is going to bring up her
Surprised and stunned. She says
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own and does not bound to follow the verdict. She
collapses and becomes quiet
though her other group members says that do not take it serious since it is just for
fun and a mock trial. Every body fails to calm her down and
play ends with the
spectators entry for the actual show.

POINTS TO REMEMBER
1. The title has been taken from law courts.
2. It is a play within a play.
3. Real court Vs mock court environment.
4. Mr. Benare becomes and victim of sadism of her male counterparts.
5. The mock court comes to its verdict that Miss Benare is quilty.
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2.
Vijay Tendulkar's 'Silence! The Court is in Session' is a scathing attack on
hypocrisy in social life.
Or
Preresentation of contemporary society in the play, 'Silence! The Court is in

Session'.
Ans. 'Silence The Court is in Session' is a wonderful contemporary pen
work In theSilence!
Work of a young educated
urban woman

ne play, Tendulkar depicted plight

the
 94 STUDENT Bxam Notes SERIES
in the Indian male dominated
society. A traditional male-dominated middle clae
urban mindset regarding woman and her value in a
contemporary society, class
TL
The
play writer has used his social observation to describe the patriarchic tenden.
regarding woman exploitation. Tendulkar exhibits how women in our societu
victimised, suffered, tortured and exploited.This answer concerns the exploitatio
of women in 'Silence! The Court is in Session'. Tendulkar has
reflected Benara
character on a big canvas of society where the common people are still
fixed to the
traditions. As inevitable frame work is designed for the Indian women
and it i
anticipated that the woman should adjust herself in these social norms. For menis
and for women the social rules are
changed. Ours is the patriarchal society and nd
rules are male prejudiced.
Miss Benare, one of thenotable creations of
Vijay Tendulkar, is the pivot female
character, around whichall activities in, "Silence! The Courtis in Session" take
She is proud of her performance as a teacher and feels that her life is place.
ace.
her own and
no one has
got the right to interfere in it. She is a member of an amateur dramatic
association which stages play in different places to create
some social or
public consciousness on
sociological issues. Miss Benare is a liberal woman but in our Indian
society certain norms are prescribed for the women. She is in search of a happy
life after a few frustation in her
life. But society does not allow her to live quietly,
Tendulkar exposes the conditionof women of the middle class
context. Both Benare and Mrs. kashikar are
family in Indian
to male
presented women have fallen victims
as

supremacy in Indian society. They both are not free to act independently
Benare's attempt to lead an independent life of her own has been
frustrated by the
group of men surroundings her during the course of mock-trial. Her freedom has
been mercilessly crushed.
Benare is an educated woman of about 34 years. She is a school teacher
by profession. She loves life and is full of spirit. She is, indeed, clearly radiates
through the entire play and impregnate all the other characters with her strong
hold personality. In every aspect she is the
unity of the play. She is a character with
the towering personality of a successful teacher
and an economically independent
woman, but Miss Benare faces a blunt criticism and sexual harassment in the hands
of middle class hypocrite male folk.
Benare's independence and liveliness is concluded with a sense of
her companions and the city. She wants to disguestwith
go far away with an unknown person.
She has her will of her own. There is a hidden desire to
escape from her unknown
persons, though at the social point.
She is trapped, mentally tortured and
given discomfort by her own playmates
in a mock trial. In the play we come to face two specifichalves of dramatic individual
in a state of collision with
customary norms. Before a real theatrical performance
they start a harmless game of mock-trial. Miss Benare is intentionally
selected tor
trial.Karnik discloses the fact that Benare in her youth, was in love with her maternal
uncle and when that affair ended in fiasco, she attempted suicide.
As the mock trial becomes a real trial, the
atmosphere of the place become
gloomy and tense. It proves a mouse trap 'for Miss Benare the hypocritical middle
class men like Sukhatme, Ponkshe, Kashikar and Karnik with theirpointless middle
class, opinions take much fun of upset brutalised and humiliated Benare who is
infact a pregnant woman fathered by an unavailable Villain professor Dame
Further it is disclosed in the court that after her pregnancy through Professor Damle,
Benare attempted to get married to anyone to save herself from defamation. 1ne
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Sukhatnme points out toBenare
is based
rumours. the court partly speculation partly on
on
leads a person a stray. He that man is liable to error and
view of his client's appeals to the
court to
keep this in view youth
the prsion house of
alleged crime and show and take a lenient
mercy to her for
broken heart position. hyprocrisy
and selfishness
and male humanity's sake. In
some lines from a novel, Karnik adds: "The crime itself domination, Benare is in
by is imaginary
life story. Miss Benare chance these lines occur Samant reads
a time
opposes: "It is parallel
all lie" : But she to Miss Benare's real
pass, ends in hard reality. is in full tears what
While Benare is begins
folk, representedcriticising
the false
men
by her pride and hypocrisy of the middle class
patriarchal
particular person in her mind who cheatedcolleagues, Possibly Benare is having a
anger regarding the so called her and fled
away like coward. Her
woman she needs full controlguardian
a
of the
society is severe. As an
action can never be put into
over her
personal and private life. Herindependent
is unorthodox view of judgement by male chauvinism.
the personal
individual and Though her view
or having a baby in her
womb withoutslightly feminist's view her social conduct
becomes the target male assulters. But at
a
rightful father puts her in the dock and
silence is broken by her self-assertive last, Benare speaks of herself and the dead
triumphant voice. The cry of her speech is
that inspite of everything. She cannot fall
out of love with life. As her
love, marriage, child and life is denying
is in fact
happiness. She is in search of purity and
an
integrated essence of love of life. She has drunk beauty which
Infortunately so gets the bitter cup of it too. 'the life
to the less' but

Theplay ishavinga concealed critique of Modern Indian

class and lower middle class from various society, mostly middle
the tragedy of an individual harassed the angles. It combines social criticism
with
by society. She individual is
placed against
the backdrop of society and the tensions between
the two are
portrays life as it is from different angles without explored. Tendulkar
He has soft corner for Leela Benare for making any change any way.
in

bound to struggle against the orthodox

through out the play. His
protagonist is
sake. She has no fear of hypocritical
society. Benare wants to live a life for own
society.
The play shows the extreme of
cannot say anything directly. Instead
hypocrisy through its middle calss people who
they take a hidden way like mock trial to bring
out what they want to And
get. gradually they come to the point of their curiosity
and give a shower of question
regarding her personal life. As a result her private
lite is revealed by the hypocritical section of society who pretends to be her well
wishers. The play is derision on the middle class probity, where people have all the
ights to pass the judgement and 'silence' is the only alternative left for the victim.

POINTS TO REMEMBER ,
.In the play, Tendulkar depicted the plight of a young educated urban woman
in the Indian male dominated society.
2. Miss Benare, one of the notable creations of Vijay Tendulkar, is the pivot femaile
in Session."
haracter, around which all activities in, "Silence! The Court is
victims to male
Denare and Mrs. kashikar are presented as women have fallen
Supermacy in Indian society.
4 her own playmates
is trapped, mentally tortured and given discomfort by
Enare
i n a mock trial.
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Give a character sketch of Leela Benare in the play Silence! The Courti
urt ir
in Session.
Or
Who is the protagonist of the play 'Silence! The Court is in Session,
Or
Comment on feminist issues in Tendulkar's 'Silence! The Court is in Sessio

Ans. Miss Benare the protagonist as well as the central character of the pla
: Silence! the Court is in Session by Vijay Tendulkar is a wonderful play reflecting
the character of a middle class educated lady Miss Benare. She is the central figure
of the play. She is the only character around which all actions and movements take
place. Benare is a young unmarried middle class woman of the thirty four. She earns
her living by teaching in a school. She is clever, manipulate and sly sometimes. At
the same moment she is frank, rebellious, sociable, extrovert and assertive. She
is very dedicated to her job and works hard for the upliftment of her
students
without deviating from her duties. All this hardwork and dedication make her very
Popular among the students and her open minded character earns the jealousy of
the management and her colleagues. She loves to live her life with
ample of joy
without any social fear. She does not want any interferein her personal life.
The protagonist insists on keeping her
professtional and private life apart.
She is also a member of an amateur dramatic
troupe based in Bornbay known
as Sonar Moti Tenement
Progressive Association which stages plays in different
parts and places to create awareness and consciousness on contemporary
social issues as well as on
sociological issues. The other members of the
troupe are Mr. Kashikar (a social servant), Mrs. Kashikar (his wife), Sukhatme
(an advocate) Ponkshe, (a clerk in the central
telegraph office) Balue Rokde
(an arphan who has been brought up and educated
by Mr. and Mrs. kashikar),
karnik, (a small time actor), Samant (a local innocent who escorts Miss Benare to
the place where the play is destined to be
staged.
Unwed motherhooda tag: Miss Leela Benare never found a
true love in
life so far. She wants love and she is her
in love with her own maternal uncle and
betrayed in love twice. In her
teenage she falls
at the
and society blammed on her for her such bad right
time the man left her alone
behaviour in ociety. She tried to
suicide by throwing herself from the
the mature period of life she
balcony her house but she did not die. At
of
again falls in love with a
a married person having children too. Benare professor Mr Damle who is
has been carrying on an affair
Professor Damle, another member of the witn
çast who is absent in the play, just nis
name is discussed
by all members of the cast in mock trial. Because of this action
she has also recently been fired from her
job as her superiors thinks that unmarried
motherhood is sinful and must be kept
away from the students so that such
immorality must not pass to her students. Onthe contrary typeo
Miss Benare is determined
to give her baby a home and
security as well as a father's protection. To fulfil her
dream she asks some of her courtroom
collaborators such as Ponkshe and Rokde
to marry her and help her raise her
child, but in vain. She is aware of the fact
it is a socially unacceptable to give her tha
regard, as a mother she understands tn
stigma both she and her child will counter if it is born without a father and worrie
about how proceed in life.
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Vietimof 'atriarchy through mack trial: Somejeatouscollengues inthetroupe
t h a t Ma Henare is in a relation with somebody and is an unwed nother,
t o t i t sipet Mr sombody is
professor Damle who is not present at that plac
y t ow In order to unfold the mystery the group enacts a drama just for time
nand a moxk trial in
begun before
a theatrical performance.
A decision is
y all other membern in the absence of Miss Benare that she will be on trial. Miss taken
enare in accusedof
infanticide and this accusation is based partly on hearsay, partiy
Ojecture.
ec
Hin mock trial
proves very unpleasant and stressfulfor Ms. Benare
ause herpersonal life,which was hidden under her
urface when kashikar happy mood, comes to the
jokingly charges her with infanticide
mok
trial. During this fake trial Benare's real life trubles areduring an toimprovised
her collalborators and
ostensilble friends take
brought light, and
Nee as her
loose, inmoral, progressive life the opportunity
to insult what they
All the members style. The whole trial becormes ridiculous.
gang up against Benare to stifle her voice of
paintul is that the only other lady Mrs. Kashikar, the protest. What is more
should have supported Benare elderly hild less woman who
gangs up with the male rnermbers and
criticises her. As a witness she attacks on very badly
the court declares that she has professionally successful
committed a grave sign by
women. Finally,
without marriage. Now the embracingnotherhood
game by the name of mark trial has turned into a hunt.
Mr Kashikar who is
playing the role of a judge behaves like the guardian of the
patriarchy and gives a verdict that Miss
Benare must be sacked
school-teacher and must kill the body in her womb. This inhuman from her job of
shock to Miss Benare. She tries to run verdict is a great
away from the room but the door of the room
also behaves like the other members and
does iiot open.
Thus Benare who bubble with over-confidence
turns into a victim of social
injustice at the end. She is unaware that the mock trial her group members are
going to perform is actually is a trap and will work like a real trial. She becomes the
victim of sadism of his male counter
parts. The word silence here stands for legally
silencing the feminist section of the where we live. At the end of the
society play,
although her castmates collect themselves and try to tell her that her prosecution
was just a game, Benare has been to tally emotionally broken.
A suppressed woman of urban middle class society: Through the character
of Miss Leela Benare, Tendulkar has presented in the play a women in the middle
class society especially from the urban section. She is a suppressed lady who cannot
Iive her life according to her own wish. She tries to protest and struggle against the
hypocrisy, shameand morality of the middle class men folk. We see that in the whole
drama only Benare is the accuse and not Professor Damle who is responsible for her
pregnancy. The whole responsibilty of morality is thrust upon Miss Benare only. No
one finds any fault in Professor Damle who is equally faulty for her pregnancy. He
has also broken the social norms of morality by involving himself in a postmarital
affair with Miss Benare even having kids. Through the other members of the play
except Miss Benare it has been shown that men areby nature consideredto De
all. The
wltul, wild, childish, innocent and mischievous. Their sins are not sins at
sort of atitude when it comes to sexual
eety has a very light parantal pampering
iron rod hot and hotter. No punishment
Ces of men. In case of women the There is getsno respite, no shade or
no soothing
actually enough for such a woman. of woman in
for a sinning This play is about the pathetic position
On
ne
woman.

male dominated Indian soCiety.

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SHORT QUESTIONSISHORT NOTES

1. Write a critical note on Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar.

Ans. Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar are the eldest couple in the play. They have no child
Mr. Kashikar is a social activist and he is the chairman ofsonar Moti Tenement
Progressive Association, a Mumbai based drama company. Main purpose of
this drama association is to provide a plattorm to any amateur drama artist
and spreading awareness among the people about social issues. Plays are
stages in the city as well as in its surrounding suburban areas. In the play they
arrive, in a suburban area to stage a play regarding the trial of the American
President Johnson for producing nuclear weapon.
Mr.Kashikar loves his actions connected to his amateur troupe. He always
guide his team to understand the art of staging. He is a very serious nature
person who does not take anything lightly. He is worried about not coming
of Professor Damle and Rawte this afternoon for the play. Mr Kashikar plays
the role of judge in the trial. He wants a mock trial prior to the main play
because they have arrived very early. He constantly picks his ear on his teeth
with his earpick. He is busy in chewing pan masala during the play and even
leaves the session at the start of the play to spit out the pan juice. Kasikar
shows himself as a responsible member of society as well as of its middle
class values and Hypocritical thoughts.
Mrs Kashikar-Mrs. Kashikar, wife of Mr. Kashikar is a supporting member of
the living courtroom. She is a representative of typical contemporary middle
class wife. She is completely submissive to Mr. Kashikar. Mr. Kashikar does
not treat her well as far as her intellegency is concerned. She has no child. She
and her husband have adopted a child named Balu Rokde. Balu is brough
up by them. Now he is a young man. Mrs Kashikar is not educated. Mrs
Kashikar's cue is to fall in line or remain silent.
Mrs. Kashikar's behaviour in the attacking on Benare shows how women
feel the dominance of men over themselves as a natural happening and turn
She
aganist other growing women. say* about Miss Benare Pointing at her
open behaviour "That's what happens these days when you get everythin8
without marrying. They just want comfort. Here everything is satrically related
to sex and other
physical pleasures. According to Ms. Benare, Mrs. Kashikaris
"The hand That rocks the cradle". Mrs Kashikar's only identity is that she is
a house wife. It is her husband who calls all the shots and is shown as very
rude to her, putting her down and cutting her short on ever occasion. Mrs.
Kashikar is a very orthodox lady who does not believe in any
unnecessary
freedom of any woman. She does not help the helpless Ms. Benare in the court
even after being a woman too because Benare is not a conventional Indian
housewife
Write a short note on Sukhatme the lawyer in the play. "Ssilence! The Court
L
is in Session."
Ans. Sukhatme is a lawyer by profession and he is not successful in his rea
profession. He does not have any case in the court. He is one of the members
of the amateur drama troupe, the Sonar Moti Amateur Tenement Progressive
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Association, Mumbai. He is close to Mr. Kashikar.
Miss Benare tells about
him to Samant. She says "Well we have an
an authority on
expert on the law. He has such
subject, even a despirate clint won't go
And in his tenement, he sits alone anywhere near him!
trial, he's a very great Barrister.
killing house flies! But today's mock
He is the very main character of the
play after the protagonist. Because the
main concept of play is its mock trial and
this mock trial is the invention of
Mr. Sukhatme's brain. He
suggests that in the spare time they have right now
before the main play should be used as a
He is not a great game by the name of mock trial.
lawyer in his real profession but in a mock trial he
outstanding with duel role. One role he plays
Benare and at the same time he is his plays as a prosecutor aganist Miss
defence lawyer too. But being a member
of patriarchal system heoutshine as
prosecutar.
a He calls the accused "Public
enemy Number One." He just demands for
charge of killing baby in her womb. He doesmercy only in the view of terrible
not follow the decorum of the
court and keeps on
smoking inside the mock trial room.
3. Write a short note on Karnik in the
Ans. Karnik is a small time actor who
play 'Silence! The Court is in Session.
acts in plays and also a member of Sonar
Moti Tenement
progressive Association run by Mr. Kashikar in Mumbai.
He also works with some other theatrical
but impressive role in the
Company. Karnik has a very small
play.
Karnik likes everything
in a perfect manner
because he work seriously on the stage. Any kind of neglegences makes him
irritate. As soon as he enters the room he finds that the is not
room
properly
managed for the play to be staged on that evening. He enquires about the
essential musical equipments such as mic and battery to Balu Rokde.
He is not a romantic person. He just takes it merely a show off to care about
one another's sense of giving gift while expressing romance such as flowers
and shirt by Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar to each other. On his serious nature about
stage artangement Sukhatme makes fun of him and suggests him to watch
the stage with the eyes of audience also. He is a good observer and always
proves right about the late comers and as well as absentees too.
It is Karnik who creates sensation in the room by exposing Miss Benare's past
life. He discloses her affairs with her own maternal unclein her teenage and
about her attempt of sucide and her sucidal tenderncy too. He tells about the
poison that Miss Benare Keeps with herself every time in her purse.

4 Bolu Rokde in the Play 'Silence! The Court is in

Write a short note on

Session.'
Ans. Balu Rokde is an adopted child of Mr. and and Mrs. Kashikar. He is an orphon.
him up. He is a young man now. The
Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar have brought most.
Now he is living a life which he dislikes
couple paid for his education. in this
as their unpaid servent. He is just
Rokde is indebted to them, acting
to remove
World to fill the empty space
of a child in the couple's life. He is just
his
bare life. Balu himself thinks that he is paying for
the boredom in their
illtreated and humilated by
Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar.
past sins. Balu is usually the n a m e of Sonar
Moti
Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar
runs a drama company by the
Rokde's duty is to maintain
Association and Balu
lenement Progressive
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Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar
record of the stage properities for the plays staged by
in the trial of American President
He is playing a role of an usher of the court
Balu-Rokde is given a role ofawitness
Johson for producing nuclear weapons.
Before the events of the play, Benare
in the mock trial aganist Miss Benare.
her and help her raise her unbarm
approaches Rokde asking him to marry is going to face a public defame
Rokde refuses because he fears that he
child. caretakers who controls all his
life and behaviour
and he also fears from his

Write a short note on Ponkshe.

members from Sonar Moti Tenement
Ans. Ponkshe is one of the main troupe
Mumbai. Ponkshe is a clerk
in the central Telegraph
Progressive Association, Moti Tenement ProgressiveAssociation
Office. He is a regular actor of the Sonar witness in the mock
a role of a
He has given
run by Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar. accused of infanticide. When
the mock trial Miss Benare has been
trial. In life of Miss Benare
role of witness, he discloses very personal him
Ponkshe plays a
seduce. him and proposed
how Miss Benare tried to
He discloses that r e s t a u r a n t . He explores
the
him for a tea to a n udupi
to marry her by calling the court about a
felling everyone in
sucidal tendency of
Miss Benare by He discloses that
insecticde that she carries in her purse. with
botle of Tik-20, a n in hurry to marry
Damle's child. She is
with professor But later Miss
she is pregnant due to her pregnancy.
is in danger
she knows, a s her job
Ponkshe
Ponkshe. It is
anyone a joke with
that it w a s just results in a heart
Benare laughs by saying into a serious trial and
of mock trial character in
who turned the game So Ponkshe is a n important
for Miss Benare. dark and
broken s i t u a t i o n a lady by keepinga
he could not respect
w e s e e that
the play. But
s e c r e t of her
life.
personal