Interrogating Human Identity in Seven Steps Around the Fire

Abstract

The renewed social consciousness and the discourse on gender defined roles have been a major concern for the literary thinkers, social scientists as well as activists. The gender-centric roles cannot confine an individual to limitations and inhibitions of his ability and human sensibility. The present paper is focused to investigate the social and mental suffering of the community of eunuchs whose identity remains weak and unacknowledged. Several literary thinkers and writers have tried to bring on forth such concerns of the society wherein these unfortunate beings are deprived of emotions and feelings from the society. The researcher has earnestly tried to analyze Mahesh Dattani’s immense conscious efforts to present the predicaments of this marginalized community through his plays with the message that the society must be responsible enough to give due spaces to such invisible minorities and acknowledge their existence.