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These farcical comedies by Bengali playwright Manoj Mitra take a dig at class and caste relations in rural India under the guide of rollicking humour. Banchharam’s Orchard tells the hilarious tale of an old Banchharam who, by his refusal to die, out-manoeuvres all those who are waiting greedily to lay claim to his valuable and beloved orchard, particularly the greedy zamindar who hungers for his death. An Encounter with Royalty, turns the pomp and power of kingship on its head as an impoverished old brahman enters the body of the dead king.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"location":[8232,8231],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[10901,10701,10730],"product_tag":[10600,10637,10159],"class_list":{"0":"post-11945","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"location-jp","7":"location-mum","8":"product_cat-comedy","9":"product_cat-drama","10":"product_cat-screenplay","11":"product_tag-check-cost","12":"product_tag-check-cover","13":"product_tag-updated","14":"pa_bind-paperback","15":"pa_book-author-manoja-mitra","16":"pa_isbn-10-7777","17":"pa_isbn-13-978-8170461050","18":"pa_lang-english","19":"pa_no-pages-509","20":"pa_publisher-seagull-books","22":"first","23":"instock","24":"shipping-taxable","25":"product-type-simple"},"locations":[{"id":8232,"name":"Jaipur","slug":"jp","quantity":"0"},{"id":8231,"name":"Mumbai","slug":"mum","quantity":"1"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}