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Play Uses Riddles to Challenge Gender Assumptions
Naam Mein Ka Rakhwo Hai?
is a play about how people make assumptions about women and men.
Playwright Saurabh Nayyar described how people often picture a farmer as a man.
He and playwright-actor Niketa Saraf wondered why a farmer could not be a woman.
The play looks at ideas like this that people may accept without thinking.
In its story, three women are interested in the same bachelor.
A village elder named Somawanti asks them riddles.
The person who solves a riddle gets to tell a story.
The play is scheduled to be performed at The Box in Erandvane on October 11.
Naam Mein Ka Rakhwo Hai? explores deeply rooted assumptions about gender.
Playwright Saurabh Nayyar and playwright-actor Niketa Saraf wrote the play.
Its story follows three women drawn to the same eligible bachelor.
Village elder Somawanti poses riddles; solving one earns the right to tell a story.
The play is scheduled at The Box in Erandvane on October 11, presented by Spotlight Forum and Maharashtra Cultural Centre.
- Who
- Playwright Saurabh Nayyar and playwright-actor Niketa Saraf wrote the play; its story features three women, an eligible bachelor and village elder Somawanti.
- What
- Naam Mein Ka Rakhwo Hai? examines gender assumptions through a story involving riddles and storytelling.
- Where
- The Box in Erandvane.
- When
- October 11; the year is not stated.
- Why
- The play explores how people are conditioned to make assumptions, including the assumption that a farmer is a man.
Key facts
- Play
- Naam Mein Ka Rakhwo Hai?
- Playwright
- Saurabh Nayyar
- Co-writer
- Niketa Saraf
- Performance date
- October 11; year not specified
- Venue
- The Box, Erandvane
- Presenters
- Spotlight Forum and Maharashtra Cultural Centre
Quotes
Saurabh Nayyar
Playwright of Naam Mein Ka Rakhwo Hai?
“Imagine a farmer. Did you just see a man in a field with the tools of the trade? Even an online search puts out images of an archetypal man holding tools. This realization of how deeply programmed our minds are hit home when playwright-actor Niketa Saraf and I were writing the play Naam Mein Ka Rakhwo Hai? Niketa asked, ‘Why do we instinctively see a farmer only as a man? Why can’t it be a woman?’”
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