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Drama has traditionally been a vehicle for expressing patriarchal ideas that serve as a means of repression and enslavement. It has for long fed the idea of inequality among individuals and has created dysfunctional relationships . Variety of discourses , including drama have contested the ideas of female sexuality and identity creating disputes. Post- Independent playwrights have utilised these ideas of gender, sexuality and identity to reframe and reconstruct the preconceived ideals and images. Post-Independent playwrights have incorporated and used myths to challenge and disrupt these ideas where the superiority of one group of people or one half of the society lies in the inferiority of the other . Playwrights have now tried to decentre these existing centres . The Pavitrata Ideal of total devotion and submission to husband is resisted in Varsha Adalja'sMandodari , while Bhisham Sahni's Madhavi delicately questions the commoditization of women and the body politics ingrained in both society and literature. This paper attempts to explore Madhavi's and Mandodari's journey to eternity and the path they incorporated in order to regain their identity as an individual .