The Transformation of Rejection into Resistance: Usha Ganguli’s Selected Plays

Abstract

Resistance is one kind of protest against the domination and oppression. Usha Ganguli, the renowned theatre director, actor and playwright cum activist walks through the same path and gives voice to the so called “subaltern” who can ultimately resist and speak when they are thrust into neglected world by patriarchy. In this paper, I would like to go through her selected plays (Hum Mukhtara and Rudali). Both are the story of marginalized women who do not cow down to the circumstances, but they raise their voice against exploitation. Ganguli’s plays give a vivid account of the vast human spirit to overcome obstacles and gain economic and political liberation, thus leading to the empowerment of oppressed and marginalized. In this paper, I want to show how the women discover their own way of dominion upon the so called upper classes and how the rejected one transforms into resistant one.