A Singular Group for Women and Gay on the basis of a Shared Oppression in Mahesh Dattani’s plays

Abstract

Mahesh Dattani’s plays are always concerned with the burning issues of alternate sexuality and women oppression in contemporary India. The paper focuses on the matter of cornered group of women and gays at the same platform in his serious plays. To raise a voice against gender discrimination somewhere, it seems, women and gays are becoming distanced from their separate identities. The identities get shared in On a Muggy Night in Bombay, Dance Like a Man. And Shared oppression is what channelized through the voice of protest. The plays which are mentioned in this paper portray the picture of that singular group. Looking through this lens it produces that freedom for category is more prioritised than emancipation for each in the plays mentioned.