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Hidden Fires
50 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2003
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Manjula Padmanabhan
67 books51 followersManjula Padmanabhan is a playwright, novelist, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author.
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September 8, 2020
I absolutely recommend every Indian reading this ! It's eerie, shocking, candid and leaves to the reader to understand who is playing what role, not to render difference in interpretation but because it's common sense through the progression of events; who is playing the game and who are suffering.
Manjula is a socially committed artist who assigns a very serious purpose to art. She really values it as a commitment to the content of life and its dignity in the present and pleads to raise the voice against injustice and indignity to mankind and to sensitize common man towards the rampant social evils.
Hidden Fires addresses the February 2002 Gujarat massacres in India perpetrated by Hindi extremists and resulting in the killing of approximately 2,000 Muslims, the burning
of thousands of Muslim homes, the public rape of hundreds of women, and the displacement of more than 200,000 Muslims, many of whom are still living in refugee camps and the communal hate and divide still existing in the country with extremists in power igniting flames of hatred.
The monologues, refer indirectly to the riots in describing the denial of all sectors of a municipality to acknowledge rampant brutality It thus extends the play's reach into a universal challenge to all audiences to examine their culpability in the aftermath of violent acts. Each monologue highlights different aspects of violence and raises a number of questions regarding violence and induces the viewer to think over sincerely on what is presented to them in every monologue and how outrageously people in power , the media and common man play an important role in the disposal of human lives for no valid reason.
Manjula is a socially committed artist who assigns a very serious purpose to art. She really values it as a commitment to the content of life and its dignity in the present and pleads to raise the voice against injustice and indignity to mankind and to sensitize common man towards the rampant social evils.
Hidden Fires addresses the February 2002 Gujarat massacres in India perpetrated by Hindi extremists and resulting in the killing of approximately 2,000 Muslims, the burning
of thousands of Muslim homes, the public rape of hundreds of women, and the displacement of more than 200,000 Muslims, many of whom are still living in refugee camps and the communal hate and divide still existing in the country with extremists in power igniting flames of hatred.
The monologues, refer indirectly to the riots in describing the denial of all sectors of a municipality to acknowledge rampant brutality It thus extends the play's reach into a universal challenge to all audiences to examine their culpability in the aftermath of violent acts. Each monologue highlights different aspects of violence and raises a number of questions regarding violence and induces the viewer to think over sincerely on what is presented to them in every monologue and how outrageously people in power , the media and common man play an important role in the disposal of human lives for no valid reason.
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