It was on an evening at Badampet village in Hatnoor mandal of Sangareddy district last month. A play was on, on the open dais and people were sitting here and there, enjoying it with actors performing with emotions. A scene is dealing with a daughter-in-law not bringing dowry and she is being grilled by mother-in-law.
Stopping the play there, director P. Madhusudhan left the audience with a question ‘Idi Intena?’ No was the answer from audience. A woman Veeramani said that people must not demand dowry and everyone needs to oppose it. Why she reacted so to a play? “I my self had bitter experiences when I was newly married. My mother-in-law asked for gold which my parents could not give. The pressure I faced was so huge that the movement I witnessed the scene in the play I had responded immediately,” Ms. Veeramani told The Hindu.
In another village- Panyala – when the play was presented another day, Survarna, a woman questioned discrimination against offering equal education to girl-child. “My father discriminated against me to get educated further when there was a chance. That is why I had reacted and argued for education to girl children,” says Suvarna.
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