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subjugate all oppressed masseswhether it be dalits, adivasis, women or oppressed nationalities. Our play therefore,does not raise each of these issues in isolation, but tries to show violence asendemic to the system, and in fact getting reinforced every day. Published in 19701 Daria Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist isconsidered a classic of .
20th century theatre. Written in the form of a farce, it is basedon the events involving a real trade union activist Giuseppe Pinelli in thefascist regime in Italy, who was thrown out of the fourth floor window of aMilan police station in 1969. The man had been accused of bombing a bank. InDaria Fo's play, a Maniac decides to impersonate a judge who is due at a policestation to investigate the u·nnaturat death of an Anarchist who was interrogatedand murdered in the same police station. A journalist comes to probe the sameincident. When the .
Maniac finally leaves the building setting off a time bombin the police station after handcuffing .
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the policemen and leaving thejournalist to decide their fate, Daria Fo builds a climax that .
directly attacksthe fascist state,in Jtaly. The play lihas been staged in various countries in .
manylanguages. It has also faced repression by " various regimes, attacks by theright wing an .
has also been banned in several places. Given the fact thatthe ~_r_uelty and ruthlessness of .
fascist forces is same everywhere~. we could adaptand situate Daria Fo's ideas in our context. .
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The Special Cell office of Delhi PoHce~ thathatched the plan of cencounter' of Atif and Sajid, .
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the courtroom where BhagatSingh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to death, the .
prison where Afzal washanged, the police station where Soni Sori was brutally sexually .
assaulted bythe police, the Home Ministry's office which launches Operation Greenhunt .
toraze villages to ashes displace and commit mass murders of thousands of tribals,the .
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Parliament that passes the black faw AFSPA which gives the armed forces theright to rape .
and kill with impunity to crush the national liberation movementsin Kashmir and the North .
East, are not mere buildings. They are the seats ofpower of this oppressive and violent .
system; the symbols of the farce of this' secular democracy' in which the ruling classes seek .
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to imprison the toiling massesof the country. They are the machinery which reinforce and .
perpetrate values ofcommunal hatred, casteism and patriarchy every day. However, while .
the myriad machinations of the state are out to stifle the dissent and aspirationsof the people, .
the corridors of power incessantly reverberate with bold voicesof organised struggle of .
l'.)easants, tribals, workers, dalits, students, women, religiousminorities, oppre~~ed .
nationalities. These struggles strike at the heart ofthe very system of structural violence at .
every moment. And one day they will demolishthis system of inequality and injustice. .
Thebombing of a government building is a symbolic act of demolition, because .
onlyafter completely overhauling the current exploitative system, the oppressed .
canherald and establish a new order based on justice and equality. It is with thlssplrlt .
e that we sings songs, write poetry and tonight bring the Batla .
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PaRCha - JNU - Public Facebook - 2014 ID-67407
.
.
Search for people, places and things .
subjugate all oppressed masseswhether it be dalits, adivasis, women or oppressed nationalities. Our play therefore,does not raise each of these issues in isolation, but tries to show violence asendemic to the system, and in fact getting reinforced every day. Published in 19701 Daria Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist isconsidered a classic of .
20th century theatre. Written in the form of a farce, it is basedon the events involving a real trade union activist Giuseppe Pinelli in thefascist regime in Italy, who was thrown out of the fourth floor window of aMilan police station in 1969. The man had been accused of bombing a bank. InDaria Fo's play, a Maniac decides to impersonate a judge who is due at a policestation to investigate the u·nnaturat death of an Anarchist who was interrogatedand murdered in the same police station. A journalist comes to probe the sameincident. When the .
Maniac finally leaves the building setting off a time bombin the police station after handcuffing .
.
the policemen and leaving thejournalist to decide their fate, Daria Fo builds a climax that .
directly attacksthe fascist state,in Jtaly. The play lihas been staged in various countries in .
manylanguages. It has also faced repression by " various regimes, attacks by theright wing an .
has also been banned in several places. Given the fact thatthe ~_r_uelty and ruthlessness of .
fascist forces is same everywhere~. we could adaptand situate Daria Fo's ideas in our context. .
.
The Special Cell office of Delhi PoHce~ thathatched the plan of cencounter' of Atif and Sajid, .
! ! !' .
' ' .
the courtroom where BhagatSingh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to death, the .
prison where Afzal washanged, the police station where Soni Sori was brutally sexually .
assaulted bythe police, the Home Ministry's office which launches Operation Greenhunt .
toraze villages to ashes displace and commit mass murders of thousands of tribals,the .
.
' .
' .
Parliament that passes the black faw AFSPA which gives the armed forces theright to rape .
and kill with impunity to crush the national liberation movementsin Kashmir and the North .
East, are not mere buildings. They are the seats ofpower of this oppressive and violent .
system; the symbols of the farce of this' secular democracy' in which the ruling classes seek .
' .
to imprison the toiling massesof the country. They are the machinery which reinforce and .
perpetrate values ofcommunal hatred, casteism and patriarchy every day. However, while .
the myriad machinations of the state are out to stifle the dissent and aspirationsof the people, .
the corridors of power incessantly reverberate with bold voicesof organised struggle of .
l'.)easants, tribals, workers, dalits, students, women, religiousminorities, oppre~~ed .
nationalities. These struggles strike at the heart ofthe very system of structural violence at .
every moment. And one day they will demolishthis system of inequality and injustice. .
Thebombing of a government building is a symbolic act of demolition, because .
onlyafter completely overhauling the current exploitative system, the oppressed .
canherald and establish a new order based on justice and equality. It is with thlssplrlt .
e that we sings songs, write poetry and tonight bring the Batla .
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.