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Tara by Mahesh Dattani (Themes (Gender roles in Gujrati/Indian life…

- - - - The boy is favoured in the operation
        
        Tara is extremely disadvantaged and eventually passes away
        
        Chandan is racked with guilt after having witnessed Tara's disadvantaged life and her early death
        
        He moves to London to start a new life. Monicker-Dan
        
        Because there is an emotional connection between the two of them.
- - - - Bharti's guilt is greater than that of Chandan because she is a mother who has knowingly sacrificed her daughter's life because of cultural inhibitions that does not allow her to weigh a girls life equally to that of a boy.
        
        Bharti is driven to insanity because of this guilt which causes problems for the family as well.
  - - - Some girls accept this as something that is in their best interest.
        
        But Tara does not accept this. Considers herself equal to men a reflection of how women were thinking in a changing society.
        
        She wants to make her own decisions
        
        Chandan accepts the patriarchal hierarchy