Silencing the women: a stark look at indian society in vijay tendulkar's “silence! the court is in session”

The main trend of postcolonial writings is to exhibit the existing social follies and taboos that corrode the society from its very base, and shatter the social and cultural fabric of the society. The postmodern writers tend to reflect the spirit of their age or human experiences faithfully in order to ameliorate social order and make people aware about the concurrent social problems of the particular society. They expose the patriarchal based social structure and bourgeois oriented social and cultural fabric that hurl down one group of people into the deep trench of misery. In the present society, the murky aspects of life such as adultery, infanticide, infidelity, schism, alienation, unfaithfulness, segregation, suppression etc become the inextricable part of modern man's life in which women who are generally considered as the second class citizens become the birds of prey amidst these corrupt consuetude. The sole purpose of this paper is to depict the stark aspects of Indian society and how these murky aspects silence the women by suppressing their voice, and annihilate the social and cultural fabric of India.