Purush

The play starts in a middle class maharashtrian brahmin home of Gandhian Anna Sahib.Daughter Ambika wants to eradicate the caste system and believes in equality for which she strives through morchas (demonstrations), etc. To prove her point she wants to marry a lowcaste,Siddharth , who is busy fighting for the rights of harijans and who frequents Ambika's home and takes her help in furthering his cause.The play takes a serious turn when a corrupt politician Gulab Rao comes into their life with all the sweetness of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. He beats up her father and rapes Ambika, when she goes to his place for the help promised by him for her school.Then starts her trauma, ridicule in court, loss confidence in her school and society. Her mother dies of shock and shame, unable to bear her daughter's plight. Ambika's father is a shattered man who has lost faith in high ideals and the high and mighty politicians. Even the man she loved lets her down, saying he cannot fight for the injustice done to her, since he is a harijan (A low caste, untouchable). Now, it is time Ambika took her life and matters in her own hands... She then plans her moves and HOW ?.