Culture Roots Vs. Modernity in Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Old Stone Mansion
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This paper examines culture roots vs. modernity in Mahesh Elkunchwar’s play Old Stone Mansion (Original Wada Chirebandi in Marathi). During the mid-twentieth century major socio-economic and political transformations took place. The responses of these transformations can be found through the transactions at socio-economic levels by the Deshpande family that is residing in a small village in Maharashtra. The solution to such transactions leads to question roots vs. modernity. Further, such questions highlight the clashes at the domestic level as well as the ideology of different generations. The paper tries to find Deshpande family that is either oscillating or in dilemma for culture roots vs. modernity.
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