| Being the multifaceted literary and dramatic figure, Mahesh Dattani has given a new height and dimension to Indian English Drama. He has enriched and embellished tradition of drama with his experiments and innovations. He has authored a good numbered of dramas diverse in themes, techniques and devices. The themes of his plays are quite contemporary and modern, radical and unconventional. He has dramatized problems and issues of the modern urban Indian Society ranging from communal tension, homosexuality, child sexual abuse, gender discrimination, marriage and career conflict between tradition and modernity, patriarchal social system, constraints of hijjars, women children labourer, interpersonal relationship workings of personal and moral choices, identity crisis, revelations of the past, the problems faced by HIV positives. Clearing the Rubble, a radio play is a touching play of the victims of natural calamity and social discrimination. While commenting on his plays, John Mc Rae calls him 'the voice of India' and observes as follows: |