MAHESH DATTANI’S ON A MUGGY NIGHT IN MUMBAI: AN ODYSSEY OF INDIAN HOMOSEXUALS
NEW MAN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES (ISSN: 2348-1390)
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MAHESH DATTANI’S ON A MUGGY NIGHT IN
MUMBAI: AN ODYSSEY OF INDIAN
HOMOSEXUALS
1. DR. PRAKASH BHADURY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF H & S. S, NIT, HAMIRPUR
&
2. SANJIV KUMAR. RESEARCH SCHOLAR, KU, NAINITAL
Homosexuality has been common across cultures in the world though the term was first coined by a German Doctor in 1869.The term gay and lesbian came as later development from the sexual behavior of same sex relationships. But the same has never been accepted in any society of the world even though there are traces of such practice that goes on off the curtain including India. Sherry Joseph through his study made an attempt to understand the
Indian Gay and Lesbian movement through the wider perspectives of identity politics. In an era of gay and lesbian marginalisation, the homosexual immigrants of Indian subcontinent demanded in Britain and America:
An agenda within a racist climate different from the agenda imposed by white gays and lesbians. The impact of colonial history and concepts of orientalism upon world- views and perceptions has played a central role in how non white people have been defined…Silenced in both south Asian patriarchal societies and the white gay communities in America and Europe, the south Asian gays and lesbians have had to invent themes, often with new terms of identification (2228).
The identification of one‟s sexual behaviour is again the product of the western ideology as the entire West rests on Christian values as their prime ideological moorings. In post colonial era scholars of the empire began to deliberate on a new terminology that can be conveniently used to identify people not preferring to be heterosexual. Thus came, the term alternate sexualities mainly as “an attempt to decolonize the general notion and establish the existence of various expressions of sexualities surrounding scriptures, arts, life histories
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MAHESH DATTANI’S ON A MUGGY NIGHT IN
MUMBAI: AN ODYSSEY OF INDIAN
HOMOSEXUALS
1. DR. PRAKASH BHADURY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF H & S. S, NIT, HAMIRPUR
&
2. SANJIV KUMAR. RESEARCH SCHOLAR, KU, NAINITAL
Homosexuality has been common across cultures in the world though the term was first coined by a German Doctor in 1869.The term gay and lesbian came as later development from the sexual behavior of same sex relationships. But the same has never been accepted in any society of the world even though there are traces of such practice that goes on off the curtain including India. Sherry Joseph through his study made an attempt to understand the
Indian Gay and Lesbian movement through the wider perspectives of identity politics. In an era of gay and lesbian marginalisation, the homosexual immigrants of Indian subcontinent demanded in Britain and America:
An agenda within a racist climate different from the agenda imposed by white gays and lesbians. The impact of colonial history and concepts of orientalism upon world- views and perceptions has played a central role in how non white people have been defined…Silenced in both south Asian patriarchal societies and the white gay communities in America and Europe, the south Asian gays and lesbians have had to invent themes, often with new terms of identification (2228).
The identification of one‟s sexual behaviour is again the product of the western ideology as the entire West rests on Christian values as their prime ideological moorings. In post colonial era scholars of the empire began to deliberate on a new terminology that can be conveniently used to identify people not preferring to be heterosexual. Thus came, the term alternate sexualities mainly as “an attempt to decolonize the general notion and establish the existence of various expressions of sexualities surrounding scriptures, arts, life histories
Cited: 1. Dattani, Mahesh. Collected Plays. Penguin books India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi. 2000. Print. 3..Joseph, Sherry. “Gay and Lesbian Movement in India”. Economic and Political Weekly.Aug 17, 1996 49 NEW MAN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES (ISSN: 2348-1390)