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| Visarjan | ||||||||
| 9 January 2012, SRC, 4:30 pm | ||||||||
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(Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Bisarjan) |
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| Gobindamanikya, Tripura’s monarch, on realizing the futility of blood sacrifices, issues a ban on slaughters at the altar of the Goddess. This causes a general discontent in the state that is encouraged by high priest Raghupati, who decides to incite everyone against the king. He starts by playing on the emotions of the childless queen Gunabati and then moves on to General Nayanray, the crown prince, and the king’s brother Nakshatraray. However all his efforts fail until he finally finds Jaisingh, a Rajput by birth, who has unquestionable faith in the deity and his mentor. Caught between blind faith and a mixed sense of morality and witnessing the clash between Raghupati and Gobindamanikya, Jaisingh finally decides to sacrifice himself as the only solution to the stalemate. Visarjan explores the meaning of true religious devotion and exposes the heinous, barbaric and brutal acts perpetrated by the fundamental religious orthodoxy, in the name of religion and God. | ||||||||
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