FINAL SOLUTIONS

Final Solutions, Dattani’s fifth play, was written early in 1991, a year before the communal riots in Bombay, sparked by the destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya. The play revolves around a Hindu family that gives refuge to two Muslim boys during a communal riot. Dattani traces the Hindu-Muslim conflict through three generations of the family, attempting to examine the deeply-rooted attitudes behind years of prejudice. Dattani’s best-known play, it clinched the 1998 Sahitya Akademi Award for its objective and unbiased attitude towards communal differences. The play foregrounds the Hindu-Muslim divide and the deep-rooted mistrust that lies just beneath the skins of our liberal, secular attitudes.

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