SITA OF AMBAI AND INDIAN ETHOS

Ambani's Sita and Socio culture image of Sita of Indian :

.                  C. S. Laksmi 'Ambai'

Crossing the River is a play written by Ambai, and in its own words or view it essentially rewrites Sita's story. Since she's a woman, Sita and her characteristics are more important than Ramayana. Ambai gave Sita a powerful position, literally raising the role of women in Indian cultural society

Explanation:the banks of its river, so also the play builds to unleash the rage which lies in every being that is buried & hidden which may seem calm outside and buried within it however, within him/her the "pain" that comes from "years of oppression & injustice

• For any performance, movement & action on the stage is essential, and the stage must not be static. This is a synthesis of movement & dialogue reflects the audience's interest in the performance. Every action that occurs on stage must interpret meaning. If one side of her face has been shown to the audience, it can indicate that she will reveal who she is.

• The river's identity or name doesn't actually matter in accordance to the woman who speaking. All rivers are the same.. The movement of the actor on the stage bolsters her speech. When you face the audience, she says 'It is not important whi river it is,' she addresses them and forces them to think directly. On metaphorical levels must also not matter the identity of the woman, since she talks about all women throughout the ages. An actor's movement

.      Sita's discription in Ramayana

• The river started to acquire a metaphorical meaning in 1st section of the play itself. It is a "metaphor for life" in the "traditional sense". Some aspects are obvious in life too, while others are concealed. The voice of the woman and the flow of the river

moves steadily at the same time. • Much like the slow flowing river masks the fury that unleashes devastation when it rushes against is an essential facet of his/her performance

• A character is built with movement & speech together. There was a moment when she joke, as dreams, but she then takes us unexpectedly to the new movement by saying "destroyed I came". It gives us interest in the eyes of writers and the audience. What transformed her from a happy, carefree person to this pained person? What was the happiness that was destroyed or liberty that was taken away? Also remember that it is in the first person she starts to speak.

• The white screen is now used to create an impression of the woman on stage. It is suggested by the darkness and the voices.The whistling wind sounds create a weird environment. The voices asked the woman countless questions.

• Ambai, however, quite expertly had used movement to convey the

deep chaos in the heart of women. The image that she's moving across the stage also reveals her incarceration. She is unable to find a way to break her "shackles" & "soar to freedom". She reveals her identity at last. We're in the dream

identity at last. We 're in the dream world here. When women reveals that her name is Sita, the Ramayana Sita, we know immediately that we have here two worlds - a world of truth and a world of fantasy; both the past and the present. In Ambai's Sita, Ramayana's Sita here has reaches the contemporary world.

The image of the ever silent Sita, the docile, uncomplaining, obedient Sita, the Sita, which was only Rama's shadow, was profoundly rooted in Indian ethos. It is clear that Ambai questions this ethic and reinvent and tell Sita 's story from her viewpoint. We see the story of Sita from a different perspective when crossing the river. • In this re-telling of the story of the century, we have a women's core understanding of history. The striking difference is that Ambai gives Sita a voice in her retelling of the myth. Her century silence is broken! She speaks out in a strident way about her victimization and reveals the incidents that hurt and embarrassed her painfully and adversely. Does it mean that Sita never knew the anguish and the pein inflicted on her because she pain inflicted on her because she never spoke any word? • Would her silence imply she thought the treatment she had received was deserved? Ambai play takes a glimpse inside her mind and her heart. She's hurt emotionally and she's still furious. She knows she was a victim of lust, love, & politics, as she puts it quite briefly. When she says these terms, she is like any woman who has always struggled because of men's lust, love, and politics.

• But in the context of Ramayana we can clearly make the connection by trying to explain these lines. Next, because of Ravana 's desire, she was trapped in the forest. Hence, in Ambai's Sita, here Sita is used as a "metaphor" in this play, She is depicted as an empowered and play has revealed several incidents which question patriarchy in our society.

SITA OF INDIAN ETHOS

What is the greatness of Sita. It is her character and its strength. Before concluding, I'd strongly recommend you read the Ramayana in its entirety first. It does not mean simple completion of reading. It involves reading a situation, place yourself in that position and interpret the responses from each character.

Sita's dedication towards her husband may sound to be pretence but if you see that when that 'Pativrata' was used, the results are not natural. When Hanuman was being paraded in Lanka with his tail set on fire, Sita put her "Pativrata dharm' at stake and asked the Fire to calm down. Is it possible to make fire feel like comfortable cold breeze in normal situations? She could do it because of her dedication to her Husband.

This was not tested once but several times. She was made to sit under a tree and was surrounded by women with horrible faces and qualities who keep praising Ravan and keep bashing Ram. We cannot survive a hostile environment for a few minutes or even a day or two feels like eternity for us. She was in such an environment for 10 months where night and day.

Sita is the central female character and one of the central figures in the Hindu epic, Ramayana and its other versions. She is described as the daughter of the earth goddess, Bhūmi and the adopted daughter of King Janaka of Videha and his wife, Queen Sunaina.

Sita is the consort of Lord Rama and the incarnation of Sri Lakshmi.

Make them playful and feminine for all women

Is awarded as a virtue. Sita, the Hindu goddess who represents good character, good fortune, prosperity, success and happiness. .

• When Sita reaches adulthood, Janaka organizes a swayamvara in Janakpurdham with the condition that Sita will marry only the person who will be able to wire Pinaka, the bow of Lord Shiva.

In some versions of the epic, Agni-deva Agni creates Maya Sita, who takes the place of Sita and kidnaps Ravana and endures her captivity, while the real Sita hides in Agni. During the ordeal, Maya Sita and the real Sita exchange again. 

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Sita ji Ram was the wife of Lord Rama. In this avatar, he is very tangible and comfortable in tangible form

Goddess Sita shows good character, good fortune, success, happiness in Hinduism.

In the Ramayana, Sita Mata agreed to leave her palace and go to Banavas, supporting her husband.

He encountered Ravana, an evil demon there. Who took him as his prisoner.

Due to this, Lord Rama fought with Ravana's army of Asuras for Sita Mata and Sita Maiya was finally freed from the clutches of Ravana.

But Lord Rama did not adopt Sita Mata but asked him to take the ordeal, so that he could introduce his Sati Dharma.

Due to this, Sita Mata considered it more appropriate to join the earth and in front of everyone, she merged into the earth.