This Powerpoint presentation explores the issue of Gender Discrimination in the work of Mahesh Dattani.

1. The Issue of Gender Discrimination
in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

2. Mahesh Dattani
• Mahesh Dattani is a Bangalore based dramatist,
writer, actor and director.
• He is the first English language playwright who
has the honour of winning Sahitya Akademi
award for Final Solutions and Other Plays in the
year 1998.
• He wrote plays as Final Solutions, Dance Like a
Man, The Big Fat City, Bravely Fought the Queen
etc.

3. Themes in Dattani’s works
• Through his plays, he throws light on the lives of
marginalised sections of society. He tries to
aware and sensitise mainstream people about
their problems.
• He has tried to bring hidden issues of society
such as plight of women and transgender,
gender discrimination, homosexuality, child sex
abuse etc. into light through his plays.

4. • Dattani makes an abundant use of Indian
mythology, rituals and traditions and
contemporary problems.
• Mahesh Dattani has represented the issue of
marginalised women in the play Tara.

5. Tara : Characters
• Tara
• Chandan
• Patel
• Bharati
• Roopa
• Dr. Thakkar

6. Gender Discrimination in Tara
• Marginalization of women
• Conjoined twins, where boy is preferred over girl
• Manipulation of surgery by Bharati and her
father
• Female infanticide
• Gender based division of labour
• Indian woman in the Indian society

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