A Tale of Gender Discrimination in Mahesh Dattain's Play Tara

Mahesh Dattani’s play Tara deals with the theme of gender discrimination in the society. The present paper discusses and analyses how Dattani’s has shown the issues of marginalization of women in this play. It is a moving story of conjoined twins, Tara and Chandan. The play highlights how much a boy is given more importance than a girl in an Indian family. Dattani considers gender discrimination as unnatural and moral beliefs connected with principles bring out complex and multi-dimensional nature of issue. The play pictures the unacceptable and strong in uence of giving importance only to men in the collective awareness of society .These values of socialization which makes women weak physically and emotionally. Men always treat women cruelly without giving them the same freedom and rights. In the play, Bharati the mother of Tara spoils life of her daughter and later suffers from the guilt of her inhuman act. Her guilt leads her to madness and creates problem in the family also. Dattani also expresses the innoscent attitude of society towards the differently abled persons. The misuse of science and technology is expressed through the character Dr. Thakkar