Tear off the Mask from the Faces: The Politics of Society in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

Abstract

The word politics is related to power. The power is applied to the benefit of society. But now the black hand of politics is used for only the benefit of the particular class of society depriving the other class. This paper deals with the unveiling of the mask of suppression of woman under the male society. Women in society are treated as backward class as they have no right to get equal right justice from the head of society. Society creates a barrier to woman to remain within four walls of ignorance deprive of the light of education. Such kind of women oppression and deprivation are made vivid by Mahesh Dattani’s play Tara where Tara, a girl is deprived of her right through surgical intervention because of the politics of male dominating society. This political intervention raised the development of a complex series of events and vivified the black hole in the constitution of male dominating society. My purpose in this paper is to highlight the politics of male preference over female child and to unveil black cover of biased and corrupt society through the play. In the present paper I focus my microscopic point of light on the character Tara, a representative of deprived female society, to point out the macroscopic problem prevalent in our society.