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Item Baramah Tukhari: Arth-Sanchar Jugat(Khalsa College, Amritsar, 2018) Kaur, Ramanpreet; Kaur, AmandeepItem The Patriarchal Perspectives on Female Subjectivities in the Selected Plays of Atamjit and Mahesh Elkunchwar(Central University of Punjab, 2019) Kaur, Amandeep; Saini, AlpnaThe present research is aimed at critically exploring the selected Marathi and Punjabi plays namely Pooran, Farash Vich Uggya Rukh, Main Tan Ik Sarangi Han by Atamjit and Old Stone Mansion, Garbo and Sonata by Mahesh Elkunchwar who are both well-known playwrights of the second half of the 20th century. Their plays are concerned with many social and political problems and divulge various dimensions which help construct female subjectivity. Both demonstrate woman as victim of the caste, class and gender discrimination. Inferior conditions of middleclass women, sexual issues like prostitution, violence, extramarital affairs, rape, murder, gender discrimination, exploitation, psychological disorders have been examined with special reference to construction of a woman’s subjectivity. This research work is significant as these two are important contemporary authors who raise questions about the marginalisation and subjectivities of women in two different societies, languages and cultures of India. The selected plays analyse different women characters in the selected plays who sometimes accept the supremacy of a man, and resist at other times while also representing the psychological constitution of a woman in terms of her gender and her cultural placement. The present study has also undertaken a comparative study of selected plays in order to explore the typically patriarchal perspectives of the two authors in their given cultural locations on how a woman is constructed in contemporary Indian drama. The thesis employs readings of the plays in consultation with diverse disciplines such as Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Gender Studies and Performativity. This study will help forge an understanding of the female subjectivities from varying standpoints under the light of various discourses prevalent in the contemporary Indian locations, particularly, those of the selected playwrights.Item Realistic attributes of punjabi society: A critique of Ajmer Singh Aulakh's plays(Global English-Oriented Research Journal (GEORJ), 2015) Kaur, AmandeepThis paper deals with Punjabi Playwright Ajmer Singh Aulakh's plays which illustrate the realistic features of the Punjabi society. Most of his plays are concerned with the period of Green Revolution and present contemporary social context in which the constant increase in expenditure and decrease in the income resources give rise to many complex socioeconomic problems. Aulakh has passionately portrayed the stress of human minds through the centuries. The main subject of his plays is lack of land and poor status of farmers. Aulakh possesses a deep insight about rural life and has a good hold of rural language especially Malwai