Abstract: Gender inequality is a common malice all over the world. Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation and suffer attacks on their fundamental human rights.However, they have been ignored for centuries and treated as ‘second sex’. Throughout the history and in almost all societies, inequalities of men and women are part and parcel of an accepted male dominated culture. Women often have to face discrimination, injustice and dishonor. Besides this, they are denied their most basic and fundamental right, i.e. “right to life”. The negligence of the girl child and discrimination goes hand to hand. The patriarchal and hypocritical nature of modern male dominated society has been understood, analyzed and exposed by the famous modern Indian dramatist Mahesh Dattani. Almost all his plays ring the note of some burning topics of this modern world. Dattani’s well known play “Tara” is centered round the theme of gender discrimination, injustice and clash of attitude which is gaining ground everywhere in this modern age. “Tara” is not just the story of the protagonist of the play Tara, but it is the story of every girl born in Indian family whether urban or rural. “Tara” shows a typical woman character persecuted by male domination. It is a riveting play that questions the role of a society that treats the children of the same womb in two different ways. Through this play, Dattani mocks at such type of thoughts that prevail in our society.

    In this paper an effort has been done to bring up this particular view of thought to make a fertile insight towards the study of women as subaltern.It also seeks to bring out from the closet the hidden faces of outdated male system and its effect on the females of the male dominated families.

Keywords: Malice, abject deprivation, fundamental, hypocritical, gender discrimination, injustice, subaltern.