She Within: Voicing Her Silence in Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court in Session

The paper aims at exploring the suppressed voices of marginalized woman throw the character of Miss Benare. She is the pivotal figure, primarily a dutiful and punctual school teacher, who becomes victim of lust of a man. The play tries to expose the position of a woman in a male dominated society through the incidence of a mock trail in which a woman is put to trail for her offence of infanticide. In this mock trail Miss Benare has to perform the role of this marginalized woman. The paper, thus, attempts to expose the male hypocrisy that is responsible to subdue the inner voice of a woman; the paper also tries to expose a traumatic experience where she finds herself as a fish of water. It also deals with the factors responsible to drag her to commit suicide and thus becomes a matter of her search for identity where her inner voices are suppressed which needs an outlet.