Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2015

Social exclusion in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire

Mr. Hemantasarma

Abstract :

Mahesh Dattani has touched a number of issues which are of great interest of the world today. Dattani mainly deals with the public issues like globalisation, gender discrimination, same sex marriage, marginality and other touching areas of Indian life. Another important motif of Dattani’s play is social exclusion. However, he underlines this theme not on the basis of social customs and bindings, but on unbiased gender. The world of homosexuals, dreaded diseases like HIV/ AIDS, bi–sexual diseases become a prime concern in the contemporary Indian society and it gives birth to social exclusion in our society. Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire dramatises the identity crisis of hijra (eunuch) community in this world who suffer from social exclusion in our society. The hijra community is underprivileged of several rights. They are the abandoned gender who faces discrimination in every step of their life. Dattani has taken a bold venture by introducing such a theme in this play. The present paper is an attempt to show how the theme of social exclusion is best reflected in Seven Steps Around the Fire.

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Mr. HemantaSarma Social Exclusion in Mahesh Dattani�s Seven Steps Around the Fire International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 9 September 2015

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