Social Issues and its Effects in Mahesh Dattani's "Tara"
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GONZAGA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOR WOMEN kseunice777@gmail.com SOCIAL ISSUES AND ITS EFFECTS IN MAHESH DATTANI’S “TARA”
Mahesh Dattani, the writer of the play Tara is an actor, playwright, dancer, director, teacher and screenplay writer. Dattani has won prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his play”Final Solutions” and that play deals with Communalism. Mahesh Dattani is a spokesman for all the marginalized people. The play “Tara” was first performed as “Twinkle Tara” at the Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore, on October 23, 1990.
Tara is a play which exposes the current social issues such as Gender discrimination, Ethical deterioration of medical Profession, female infanticide and money and property minded society… We can see the results of this corrupted society in this play itself.
Tara and Chandan are conjoined twins. They are joined at the hip and have to be separated surgically. In the three months they need an operation in order to get separated. They have got only three legs and the blood supply to the third leg is from Tara’s body. Injustice and discrimination starts here. Though the girl has bright chances, she is denied of the leg as she is a female. Mother and grandfather with the influence of politics manipulated the operation to favour the boy [Chandan] over the girl [Tara] by giving two legs to the boy to make him perfect. Unfortunately, chandan had two legs only for two days which would have been Tara’s if it was operated correctly. From the very birth, girl children are discriminated as they are female. Parents fail to give proper attention to the girl children. They consider male as superior to female. It is so sad that even the female characters itself involve in discrimination i.e. her own mother Bharathi. How can a mother differentiate her own children who are born from her own womb? Bharati’s father has willed more money and property for Chandan but not for Tara. Both are his
II M.A.ENGLISH
J.JOYS
I M.A.ENGLISH
GONZAGA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOR WOMEN kseunice777@gmail.com SOCIAL ISSUES AND ITS EFFECTS IN MAHESH DATTANI’S “TARA”
Mahesh Dattani, the writer of the play Tara is an actor, playwright, dancer, director, teacher and screenplay writer. Dattani has won prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his play”Final Solutions” and that play deals with Communalism. Mahesh Dattani is a spokesman for all the marginalized people. The play “Tara” was first performed as “Twinkle Tara” at the Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore, on October 23, 1990.
Tara is a play which exposes the current social issues such as Gender discrimination, Ethical deterioration of medical Profession, female infanticide and money and property minded society… We can see the results of this corrupted society in this play itself.
Tara and Chandan are conjoined twins. They are joined at the hip and have to be separated surgically. In the three months they need an operation in order to get separated. They have got only three legs and the blood supply to the third leg is from Tara’s body. Injustice and discrimination starts here. Though the girl has bright chances, she is denied of the leg as she is a female. Mother and grandfather with the influence of politics manipulated the operation to favour the boy [Chandan] over the girl [Tara] by giving two legs to the boy to make him perfect. Unfortunately, chandan had two legs only for two days which would have been Tara’s if it was operated correctly. From the very birth, girl children are discriminated as they are female. Parents fail to give proper attention to the girl children. They consider male as superior to female. It is so sad that even the female characters itself involve in discrimination i.e. her own mother Bharathi. How can a mother differentiate her own children who are born from her own womb? Bharati’s father has willed more money and property for Chandan but not for Tara. Both are his