Rashmi Jain Research Scholar, University of Allahabad Mahesh Dattani is a contemporary iconic dramatist whose plays are combination of tradition and modernity. In his plays one finds the fusion of various cultures and philosophies. Alyque Padamsee says that at last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English speaking Indians an identity. Drama in…
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Social Taboos in Plays of Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani
Dr. Santosh Kumar Sonker Assistant Professor Department of English & Foreign Languages Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak (MP) Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani, the first is a Marathi playwright writing originally in Marathi but English rendering of his plays are also available and the second is an Indian English playwright writing in English, emerged…
Gender Conflict and Social Consciousness: A Study of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara
Md. Saquib Abrar Guest Faculty, Dept. of English Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh U. P., Pin 202002, India [Abstract: Mahesh Dattani is an Indian writer and actor. His well known plays are- Final Solution, Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, Thirty Days in September, and Tara. He has received Sahitya Akademi Award. His plays…
Beyond Broken Columns: Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions and the Quest for ‘Horizontal Comradeship’
Abin Chakraborty West Bengal, India. The attempts to imagine the Indian nation as a united political community are repeatedly ruptured by what Pramod Nayyar calls the processes of ‘postcolonial subalternization’ which refers to all those forces of oppression that continue to ravage India on the basis of class, caste, gender, creed and of course religion….
Gender Performativity: A study of Mahesh Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai and Dance Like a Man
Mahesh Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai: An Articulation of Gay Identity Crisis
Jaspal Singh Mahesh Dattani, the Sahitya Academy Award winner playwright gives the homosexuals of India a voice to articulate, probably for the very first time in the Indian theatre in his plays like On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Do the Needful and Bravely Fought the Queen. He spotlights the crisis that gays face as…
Mahesh Dattani’s Thirty Days in September: A Study in the Treatment of Incest
Santosh Kumar Sonker Mahesh Dattani is an Indian English Sahitya Akademi Award winning playwright who has trained his critical gaze at depicting the ground reality of the Indian society which is often side tracked in spite of the fact that it is quite noticeable. In his play, Thirty Days in September, Dattani has dramatized the…