Onto the Stage
Subtitle: 'Slighted Souls' and other stage and radio plays
Publisher: SelfImprint
Published: 2014
Place of publication: India
Language: eng
Format: Kindle E-book
Number of pages: 198
Description: This is a compendium of the author’s Indian stage and radio plays:
"Slighted Souls" is a poignant love story set in rural Telangana, beset with feudal exploitation of the downtrodden dalits. Besides forcing the dalits to toil in the fields as bonded labor without impunity, the land owning doras had no qualms in reducing the womenfolk of this ilk as sex slaves in the gadis, which leads to an armed resistance engulfing an young couple. 
Men at work on Women at work" is a tragic-comic episode depicting the fallout of sexual harassment at the workplace in the Indian urban setting with its traditional cultural underpinnings.
"Castle of Despair", built on the slippery ground of man's innate urge for one-upmanship, portrays its facade of falsity on the grand stage of human tragedy.
The radio play, "A Love on Hold", lends voice to the felt anxieties of a man and a woman as their old flame gets rekindled and the dilemmas of possession faced by the couple in a conservative cultural background.
Table of contents: title: Stage Plays; title: 1.Slighted souls; title: 2.Men at work on Women at work; title: 3.Castle of Despair; title: Radio Play; title: 1.Love on Hold