Untouchability
Scene-1
(This is
the event of Khalankot village. In this village, there is a system of
untouchability. In this first scene, the lower caste people are discriminated
by the upper caste people in the temple. Let’s see the real event.)
Harka and
Ramkali are going to temple for worshiping God.
Ramkali:
(inside temple) Oh god, please save my son.
Priest: Shiva…Shiva…Shiva ,Ramkali why are you
here? Oh harka don’t you know
you are from the lower caste?
Ramkali: My son is suffered from
fever so we are here for him.
Priest: Being a lower caste people, you can’t
enter here.
Harka: please let us to worship the god. If we
worship the god our son will fine soon.
Priest: Don’t talk too much. Go away from here
fast.
Priest: Ok, if you don’t want to go then I will
call the villagers
Villagers…..Villagers….
Villagers: What happened guru?
Priest: They entered into the temple so take
them away from here.
Villagers took them away from there
in a rude way.
(Harka and Ramkali went to their home
with sad face and crying)
Shyam: What happened to you mom? Why are you
crying?
Shyam: Father, what happened to my mom? Why is she
crying?
Harka: Son, this society suppose us to be the
untouchsbles and they don’t let us to enter into the temple. Today also they
forbid us to enter there so she is crying.
Shyam: But still today I learned that all the
people are equal.
Harka: This type of things are only for books but
the society doesn’t accept it.
Scene-2
(Even
being discriminated by the society, Shyam was a hard working student. He
studied hard and got first position in the school. He just reached home from
school.)
Shyam: ( In happy mood) Father, I got the first
position in my school. See this (sowing his marksheet)
Harka: Well done son, you have done best but I’m
uneducated so for me this is same as Kala
AaksherBhaishiBarabar.Ok go and
tell this news to your mother.
Shyam: Mom, I got the first position in my school.
Ramkali: Very good son. I think you
are hungry so call your father and then we will take dinner.
(All the members took dinner and went
to sleep)
(Next day
Shyam got up early, took lunch and gets ready for school)
Shyam: Bye father, Bye mother I’m going to school.
Ramkali:
Ok bye son.
(At
school, shyam’s friends were playing and at the same time shyam went there and
ask for playing with them.)
Shyam: Excuse me friends, can I play with you?
Friend: No, you stupid, you don’t know you are from
lower caste and we are from upper caste. You can’t play with us. Go away from
here. (all of them started laughing at him ha…..ha….ha……)
(After that Shyam went along to the tap
and started drinking water)
Krishna: Oh Shyam, what are you doing here. You
touched this tap. Don’t you know you are from the lower caste?
Shyam: I was so thirsty so I drank water.
Krishna: I don’t know anything. Friends what can we do
for him?
Friends: An easy way is to beat him so let’s beat him.
(They started to beat Shyam badly and after sometime Shyam went to his home
with swallowing face)
Ramkali: What happened to you my son? Why your face is
swallowing?
Shyam: Nothing mom.
Ramkali: Don’t tell lie. Say what happened to you?
Shyam: My school friends beat me in the school.
Harka: What is happening here?
Ramkali: Today in school, Shyam’s friends beat him
very badly.
Harka: Don’t worry son, you must have the courage
to bear it.
Scene-3
(The
society was dominating them but Shyam never lost his hard work. One day he got
a scholarship to study MBBS in Kathmandu.)
Shyam: Father….father……
Harka: Yes, I’m coming.
Shyam: father, I got a scholarship to study MBBS in
Kathmandu.
Harka: What does it mean son?
Shyam: It
means Doctory father.
Harka: Oh that’s a great opportunity for you my son.
You must best utilize it and should become a doctor.
Shyam: But my class is running so I must leave
today.
Ramkali: Son, we have a dream to make you a great
person in your life and for this opportunity we cannot stop you here. Go and
pack your bag.
(Shyam packs his bag and asks for
permission with his parents)
Shyam: I’m going.
Harka: After going there, don’t forgot us, call
time and again and study as hard as you can and return by being a doctor.
Shyam: Ok father, Bye.
(After
few years of study Shyam become a doctor and now he is telephoning with his
parents.)
Harka: Hello, who is it?
Shyam: Father Pranam
Harka: God bless you my son and how are you?
Shyam: I’m fine and I have a good news for you.
Harka: What is that?
Shyam: I completed my course and became a doctor.
Harka: Oh really, well done son.
Shyam: And where is mother, I want to talk with her.
Harka: Ramkali, our son became a doctor. Talk with
him.
Ramkali: Hello son.
Shyam: Pranam mom
Ramkali: God bless you my son. Today I’m so happy to
hear that my son became a doctor. Return here fast I’m willing to see you.
Shyam: Ok mother, I will come soon. Mom please give
phone to father.
Harka: yes, son
Shyam:
What is the condition of the village?
Harka: What can I say son, the whole village is
suffering from diarrohea and there is no docter in the health post. Some
villagers lost their life due to it so the condition is so critical.
Shyam: Don’t worry father, I’m coming soon. I’ll
treat them.
Harka: But how can you come here son? In the past
years, the villagers dominated us badly, they didn’t let us to enter into
temple and they also didn’t allow to touch the tap.
Shyam: This is the 21st century father
and in this time we must know that such kind of beliefs destroy our social
harmony and cooperation between the peoples so now we have to teach them the
lesion of humanity and make them realize that all people in this world are
equal.
Harka: Ok son, come soon and then we will talk about
it.
(After few days Shyamarrived his
home)
Shyam: Father….Father….. open the door.
Harka: Oh my son, you came.
Shyam: Pranam father ( Greets his
father)
Harka: (being happy) Great son you have done well.
Shyam: Where is mom?
Harka: Ramkali…..come here our son came.
Ramkali: Son, you became so big.
Shyam: Pranam mom (greets his mother)
Ramkali: God bless you my son. Now you have to do a
lot of works in this society.
Shyam: Ok mom. Father let’s go to the village.
Harka: Ok let’s go.
(They both father and son went to the
priest at first)
Shyam: Namaskar uncle
Priest: Namaskar… Who are you?
Shyam: I’m Shyam, son of Harka.
Priest: Oh son you became a doctor. I’m dying son make
me alive.
Shyam: Don’t worry uncle, I’ll check you and
provide medicine.
(Shyam starts to examine the priest)
Shyam: Are you drinking a lot of water or not?
Priest: No son
Shyam: But why?
Priest: Villagers advised me not to drink a lot of
water.
Shyam: They are wrong uncle you must drink a lot of
water then only you will be fine soon.
Priest: Ok son
(Likewise
they visited all the villagers home and provide medicine. After finishing, they
went to their home.)
(The next
day all the villagers gathered at one place and started discussing about Shyam
and his work to make them alive. At last they decided to go Shyam’s house and
beg sorry for their mistake.)
Villagers: Harka….harka……please open the door.
Harka: Ramkali go and look who is there.
Ramkali: (opens the door) Namaskar
Villagers: Namaskar.
Ramkali: shyam’s father look here all the villagers
are in our home.
Harka: Why all the villagers are here? What
crime we did again?
Priest: Today we are here to beg sorry with your
family.
Harka: For what?
Priest: In the past years, we used to discriminate
you saying lower caste people. We didn’t let you to enter into the temple but
today your son became a doctor and treat the villagers when the whole village
was suffering from diarrhoea so we want to beg sorry with your family and if
you want to forgive us we want to live with you in harmony.
Harka: it’s ok
(While they were talking one stranger
arrived there )
Stranger: Namaskar to you all
Villagers: Namaskar
Stranger: What is going on? Why are you gathered here?
Priest: In our village, there was the system of
untouchability but today we all realized that everyone is equal in this world
so we are here to beg sorry with this family and to end this system from our
society.
Stranger: This is the sign of an
ideal society so let’s eliminate untouchability from the society.
All the villagers and the stranger
said “Let’s end the system of untouchability and live happily in harmony.”
(The
curtain is closed)
v The drama is directed by Gulmi ACCESS
students, Madhab Parajuli and Bhuwan Pandey, and performed by Gulmi ACCESS
students: Bhuwan Pandey (Harka), Roshni Nepali (Ramkali), Sawroj Rana Magar
(Shyam), Madhab Parajuli (Priest), Sanjay Adhikari, Nitish Nepali, Shristhi Acharya
and Isha Sunar (Friends), Mansoon B.K. (Krishna), Navin Thapa, Nirmala Acharya,
Anil Pandey and Rejina Pandey (Villagers), Babil Reshmi (stranger), Bibek Marasini
(Cock).
Exercises
Discuss with your friends
a)
What is untouchability?
b)
Why Harka and Ramkali went to temple?
c)
Why was Shyam crying while returning to home from school?
d)
What was the reason behind keeping Harka’s family away from temple?
e)
Is it right to have such system in our society? Why?
f)
If you were in the place of Shyam, do you help the villagers in that
condition?
g)
Was it right to end untouchability from the society?
h)
What is the moral of this drama?
Use the following in your own sentences
a) Enter into
b) started to
c) As same as d) Go away
e) Come soon
Activity
Ø Visit one village where
untouchability was in practice and observe.
Gather some information and prepare a report on it.
Now you write
Ø Suppose you are one of the upper
caste familymember of the Khalankot village in this drama. Now, write how will you
treat the Harka’s family who were discriminated being lower caste people.
Ø Write a summary of this drama?
Creative section
Ø Write a short drama on the topic of
‘Education’.
Ø Imagine that you are discriminated
from your society as Shyam, write some points how you feel in such condition.
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