{"id":9617,"date":"2018-02-27T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:56:56","slug":"the-tyranny-of-society-a-nepali-play-shows-how-society-mutes-the-voice-of-a-transgender-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/the-tyranny-of-society-a-nepali-play-shows-how-society-mutes-the-voice-of-a-transgender-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The tyranny of society, A Nepali play shows how society mutes the voice of a transgender woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sandesh Ghimire\/Pahichan – Jiundo Akash, a play currently on stage at Sarwanam Theatre, shows the struggle of a person who does not conform to the heteronormative standards of society. Written by Chandra Prakash Pandey and directed by RK Roshan Mehta, the play is a solo performance by actor Anil Subba.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cMy\u00a0 name is Garima, but I was born as Gaurav,\u201d says the person on stage, who seems to be comfortable with\u00a0 her sexual identity, yet as she begins to engage the audience with her life story, it is clear that most of her life was spent in confusion and isolation. The play takes the format of a flashback and starts from the age when Gaurav was six years old. At home, Gaurav\u2019s feminine nature was brushed off as childish behaviour, while at school Gaurav was teased for \u201cnot walking like a boy and for choosing to spend time in \u2018girly\u2019 things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story of the play moves on to depict the inner isolation felt by a transgender woman, because the identity she associates with is branded by society as an \u2018unnatural choice\u2019.\u00a0 The play also shows the hypocritical nature of society in its dealing with the transgender community. When Garima becomes a young-adult, she is forced by her father to participate in the recruitment trial for the army. At the army camp, the recruiting officer rapes Garima, and then rejects her from the army claiming that \u201cthere is no space in the army for a Chakka.\u201d Similarly, the play also shows how a lack of social acceptance forces the transgender community to engage in prostitution to make an income, and are also forced to live dual lives. Throughout the play, Garima is constantly forced to assume the identity of Gaurav for her family\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis play is a damming indictment of our society,\u201d Rajan Khatiwada, artistic director of Mandala Theatre shared with the Post, \u201cThere is no greater cruelty than to make somebody feel lonely.\u201d He also heaped praises on Subba for his performance, \u201cSubba not just accurately portrayed the role of a transgender person living a dual life, but was also convincing in all the other roles that he enacted. \u201d<\/p>\n

The play will be staged every\u00a0day at Sarwanam Theatre in\u00a0Kalikasthan till March 3, except for Thursdays.<\/p>\n

Copy : The Kathmandu Post<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandesh Ghimire\/Pahichan – Jiundo Akash, a play currently on stage at Sarwanam Theatre, shows the struggle of a person who does not conform to the heteronormative standards of society. Written by Chandra Prakash Pandey and directed by RK Roshan Mehta, the play is a solo performance by actor Anil Subba.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy\u00a0 name is Garima, but I was born as Gaurav,\u201d says the person on stage, who seems to be comfortable with\u00a0 her sexual identity, yet as she begins to engage the audience with her life story, it is clear that most …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,492,490],"tags":[1153,458],"class_list":["post-9617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","category-slider","tag-sexual-identity","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9620,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions\/9620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}