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Concerns for Feminism in Shivmurti’s Triya Charittar
Umesh Kumar
A group of students from Banaras Hindu University’s Hindi Department were performing a dramatised version of Shivmurti’s recent release Kuchchi Ka Kanoon1 (Kuchchi and her Law) at Faculty of Arts’ annual youth festival Sanskriti on 20th February 2018. While narrating the story of Kuchchi, the student actors were reiterating that Kuchchi IS NOT LIKE Vimli. Incidentally, for all the plays, I was among the jury that day. My spatial position gave me the opportunity to hear these comparisons quite closely. Without narrating what Kuchchi’s law is (for I trust the readers’ curiosity to find it for themselves!) let me dwell on Vimli. After all, it was Vimli from Shivmurti’s Triya Charittar2 who was made to echo predominantly to establish the legitimacy of Kuchchi Ka Kanoon. I call the upcoming discussion as early notes that may present pressing concerns for the Feminist scholarship.
