Do an analysis of Mahesh Dattani's Tara from the Perspective of Gender discrimination
. Ans. Let's do an analysis on the basis of gender discrimination Mahesh Dattani is one of the best contemporary playwrights in India who occupies a very distinct and unique place in the realm of Indian English drama. His plays are performed and read almost everywhere in India and abroad. One of the reasons for Dattani s success as a dramatist appears to be his artistic response to the problems of our time. Mahesh Dattani has sensitively identified the problems troubling Indian society and has creatively presented these problems in his plays. His presentation of problems from real life situations is significant contribution to Indian English Drama. Among modern Indian playwrights, he stands forthwith singular distinctness, striking artistic perception, and immense dramatic guts. He is the most serious contemporary dramatist in Indian drama in English. He takes up serious problems prevailing in urban India. He, very successfully, gives voice to the problems and sufferings of the marginalised people of our society. The success of Mahesh Dattani as a dramatist rests upon his themes and his unique way of treating them. He is an experimenter who loves to consistently experiment with the stage space. The subjects of most of his plays are hitherto unexplored. The audience gets startled to know about the undercover reality of the society. These plays make readers sensible to the happenings around them. 20 All Rights Reserved © Manish Verma, for more Notes visit https://www.manishvermanotes.com/ It is argued, "Every work of art is a projection from the interior realm into exterior space where in becoming incarnated it achieves consciousness of itself". It signifies that self-confessional mode of elucidation of eternal reality has a greater authenticity and significance. In order to reconstruct the concept of, self within the limits of a literary work, a creative artist must keep his, creative self apart from his creative work. Beena Agarwal observes: A dramatist in comparison of poet has a better opportunity to eliminate his personality from his work and the issues taken in the literary text be developed through the consciousness of the characters. Dattani possesses an exceptional sensibility for the suffering in society born out of gender discrimination. His vision is not confined to socio religious myths only, but he delves deep to examine the psychic reactions of those who are the victims of them. In India, literature of all languages have penned down the pathetic plight of women. And thereby have raised voices against this inhumane treatment to women. Indian writing in English is no exception to this. One thing should be noted here that feminism has got mixed responses from all over the world. Feminism has given birth to two opposite attitudes namely pro-feministic and antifeministic attitude. The writers who possess favorable attitude towards feminism are called pro-feminist and those who oppose this attitude are designated as antifeministic. Mahesh Dattani belongs to the former category, i.e., the writer with the pro-feministic attitude
