The first Indian English playwright who got Sahitya Academy Award, Dattani is credited with several notable plays, which at times, may be considered controversial but are not devoid of the speck of truth. His involvement in theatre provides him an edge over other dramatists of his time. Unlike other Indian writers, he neither writes in regional languages.
Performance being one of the subtlest mediums, Dattani touches upon various social issues not only to provoke his audience but also enable them to ponder over and find remedies for the social ills worldwide. Mahesh Dattani, an Indian actor turned playwright, doesn’t face the problem of language as other Indian creative writers. We are reminded of what Shakespeare says, "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues." Human life is not as easy as it appears and the demands of every age prompts us to make various compromises despite the fact that 'its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of egregious violence' sparked by political pundits weaving different patterns of meaning in an ever changing world order. The present paper endeavours to explore the complexity of human relationships that not only binds man to man but also distances him from his fellow humans. Roy's keen sense of observation and her grasp over psychological underpinnings and her incisive eye arrests the undercurrents camouflaged under the quotidian human life that remains oblivious to numerous crushed desires trampled under the heavy feet of globalization responding to time and space making all the difference. Like other contemporary novelists she too calls her works fiction but they transcend what humans face every day though they pass unnoticed. Arundhati Roy, a much sought-after Indian English writer keeps her readers glued to her works not because of the fulminations but also because of her capability to capture the complexity of human relationships in the flux of time.
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