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Indian Writings in Literature

Notes and ordinary people but the common problems of people in realistic terms. In many of his
plays, he deals with various issues like homosexuality, gender discrimination, communalism
and child sexual abuse. Dattani manages to delve deep into the hearts to recreate characters
with authenticity and a sense of liveliness.
• Mahesh Dattani's 'Final Solution' is a very serious and delicate drama on the well-worn
subject of communalism. It is first staged in Bangalore in 1993 focusing on the problem of
communal disharmony between the Hindus and Muslims in India, especially during the
period of the post-partition riot.
• The play opens with Daksha reading from her diary. Daksha is the grandmother of Gandhi
family. When she closes her diary, Hardika appears on the stage. She feels that nothing
changed much before independence and after. In between Hardika is telling her daughter
that 'those people are all demons' which didn't like to Ramnik, a liberal minded person. In
the communal riot, two muslim boys Javed and Bobby took shelter in Ramnik's house.
• This is the final solution suggested by playwright Mahesh Dattani through the character of
Ramnik. Chorus, an important element of drama is well used by Mahesh Dattani in the play
'Final Solution'. Flash back is another important technique adopted by playwright in his play
which shows how the past moulds the present and how the present reinterprets the past.

31.3 Key-Words
1. Thematic Presentation : Denoting a vowel or other sound or sequence of sounds that occurs
between the root of a word and any inflectional or derivational
suffixes.
2. Vibrant : Full of energy and enthusiasm.
31.4 Review Questions

1. Write a short note on the play ‘Final Solution’.
2. Discuss the themes of Final Solution by Mahesh Dattani.
Answers: Self-Assessment

1. (i) Hindu, Muslim problems (ii) Gandhi’s
(iii) Angry words.
31.5 Further Readings

1. Manoher Malgonker, A Bend in The Ganges (Delhi : Oriental Paperback, 1994)
355.
2. Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri. Contemporary Indian Writer in English: Mahesh
Dattani (Delhi : Foundation Books, 2005), 77-78.
3. Mahesh Dattani. Collected Plays (New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2000), 168.
Subsequent reference are incorporated in the text-with an abbreviation,
FS Satchinand K. Indian Literature: Position and Preposition (Delhi: Pencraft
Internat.

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