A tabloid study of Gender Disparity in Mahesh...

A tabloid study of Gender Disparity in Mahesh Dattani’s – Tara

Author Name : Dr. V. M. Saranya

ABSTRACT

Mahesh Dattani is one of the most famous modern Indian – English playwrights. He always deals with the complicated dynamics of the modern urban family. In many of his plays, he deals with various issues like homo sexuality, gender discrimination, communalism and child sexual abuse. Dattani is one of the play wrights who challenged the construction of India and Indian as they have been presented in the modern English theatre.Dattani creates a real world Indian society, infamous for bringing atrocities against its female members and also introduce a dream world at the end of the play when Tara and Dan are seen hugging each other in some other place.