This critical anthology interrogates the aesthetics of Mahesh Dattani's plays, embedded in his deft constructions of the contemporary, urban middle class people of India. What comes sharply under the scanner is Dattani's notation of gender and class discriminations, familial affiliations and discords, communal politics and violence, as well as the dilemmas and tensions of the differently able, the transgendered, the gay and the lesbian. Equally does ...
