The Neglected Voice in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
Mahesh Dattani is one of the leading and contemporary playwrights in English. He is a versatile dramatist who is known as an actor, a playwright and a director. A celebrated dramatist in Indian English Literature and the first playwright to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. Mahesh Dattani born in Banglore and graduated in History, Economics and Political Science. Dattani started his career as a copy writer and became a full-time theatre professional. His play’s highlight societal issues and deep unstructured lives of people and their social conditions. In most of his plays Dattani talks about the invisible issues like, gender prejudice, homo-sexuality, sexual abuse and its impact, gender identity and other social isssues. This paper focuses on the character Tara an identical twin with three legs who is forced to be killed. The paper brings out the conception of ‘HE’ ‘she’ even right from the birth of a child. The play Tara highlights the emotional separation of two conjoined twins and the influence of their mother and grandfather to favor the “Boy” child over the “girls” baby. The play Tara opens with the character Chandan known as Dan who recalls his early life which had been spent enjoyably with her sister Tara. Tara is not only a protagonist of the play, but also the story of a girl child born in an Indian family. Tara is an example of women exploitation in the society.
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Umar Altaf Sof
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