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Gender discrimination is one of the major social issues of Indian society. Mahesh Dattani is one of the most important play wrights of Indian English literary world in portraying the issues of Gender discrimination in his plays. The play Tara is the best example of Dattani�s plays in showing Gender discrimination as a major theme. Tara is the major character, who is physically deformed and neglected by her own family. She is discriminated by her family even from her childhood, while performing a surgery of conjoined twins. She loses a limb for her brother and remains physically deformed for the entire life due to the ill thought of her mother and grandfather. They think that Chandan�s leg is more important than Tara�s life. She is not given any opportunities to continue her studies and progress in career whereas Chandan, being a male child gets more priority and attention by all the members of the family. Masculine hegemony is shown as the root cause for the death of Tara in this play. The play pays more attention on the insecurity levels of girl children in Indian families. It brings forth the public that girls are intolerated even in contemporary society in spite of many social reforms and advancements. The play also shows that this social evil is existed even in highly educated families of India. Tara�s mother is shown with negative reflections due to her decision of favouring Chandan by providing a limb from Tara�s body and becoming responsible for her death. Through this play Dattani portrays the sufferings of feminine gender and focuses on gender equality.