The Societal Gaze and Stigma: A Study of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

Abstract

People with disability are the most overlooked group of society. Stigmatization and marginalization go hand in hand contributing towards the social exclusion of people with special needs. It leads to social, political, and economic exclusion of people. Marginalizing people is more of a social perception and conjectures, and it exists because of prejudices. People with any form of physical impairment are denied social benefits by the self-proclaimed propagators of society, the group which creates binary and defines normal and consider people with especial needs as abnormal. Society creates boundaries of normalcy and able bodies and fails to accept the diverse sets of capabilities treating them as unimportant and insignificant. Keywords: Disabilty, Marginalisation, Gender disparity, Social stigma, Assertion.