A Critical Analysis of Vijay Tendulkar's Silence ! The Court is in Session

Silence! The court is in session (1967), the first Tendulkar’s play to become part of the New Indian Drama phenomenon of the sixties and the first significant modern Indian play in any language to centre on woman as protagonist and victim. With its production Tendulkar became the center of a general controversy. He had already acquired the epithet of “the angry young man” of Marathi theatre but now he was definitely marked out as a rebel against the established values of fundamentally orthodox society.