Chandalika at Swatantryaveer Savarkar Smarak Sabhagriha

Based on a story from a Buddhist Text, Tagore`s Chandalika bespeaks the anguish of a girl Prakriti whose consequences of birth compels her to live on the edges of society as `Chandalika`-an untouchable. She watches wistfully from the shadow as the world passes her by denying her existence until one day arrives a Buddhist monk Ananda asking for `water`.
Prakriti at once, shrinks and makes her identity known. But the monk brushes aside her hesitation with a simple statement that God made every human being equal and therefore her origin was inconsequential and proceeds to quench his thirst with the water offered by Prakriti. The monk`s extra ordinarily radical request and acceptance of water awakens Prakriti`s awareness of her own innate self.