Mahesh Dattani Analysis

Mahesh Dattani is one of India 's best and most serious contemporary playwrights, writing in English. He is the first playwright in English to be honored with the “Sahitya Akademi Award”. He arise voice through his writings where he saw the vice of the society against the innocent. He brings out the darkness to the light of the world through his words. Most of his plays are discussed about Taboo issues, Gender bias, social discrimination and marginalised area of the society. This paper is a modest attempt to study the gender-based injustice and how the male given preference over the female in an Indian family. The play deals with the emotional separation of two conjoined twins and the manipulation of their family to favour the boy child over the girl child.
A good art is written to the lead humanity in a right path. Whenever the society chooses the wrong trail, whenever a race is devastated by another one and where a naive is perturbed, writings are the first thing to stand against these evils. Dattani arises through his writings where he sees the vice of the society against the innocent. He brings out the darkness to the light of the world through his words. Most of his plays are discussed about Taboo issues, Gender bias, social

In the play Tara, Tara is the central character and protagonist of the play. Chandan is a brother of Tara and also a narrator of the story, who lives in the hunting memory of his sister Tara. The play opens in London while he is writing a story about his sister Tara in the name of Twinkle Tara. It is not just a play but a confession to his sister for the bias done to her in the name of his own. Dan is the second name of Chandan. He has changed his name to free himself from the burden of injustice done to Tara. He considers himself responsible for his sister 's death. So he goes to London, he excommunicates himself from others. He tries to live in the new world and he tries to write the story about his sister Tara as Twinkle