{"id":1766,"date":"2012-03-06T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2012-03-20T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:55:13","slug":"strindbergs-miss-julie-relavant-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/strindbergs-miss-julie-relavant-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Strindberg denounce Miss Julie&#8217;s actions himself ? How is Miss Julie relavant to India today ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Has the west finally achieved the egalitarian society it boasts about? Does the class and gender war only exist in Asia and Africa? In that context, is a 19<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0century Swedish play, relevant to 21<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0century India?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Social preoccupations and prejudices find a place in August Strindberg\u2019s most popular play,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><em>Miss Julie.\u00a0<\/em>The daughter of a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">count, living in a morally upright society,\u00a0 has an affair with one of her servants.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">I wonder how many of us Indian women would be able to stomach a one night stand with the<em>\u00a0khansama\u00a0<\/em>and then face the family squarely, the following morning? 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