Rationalistic and Humanistic Study of MD’s Play: ‘The Seven Steps Around the Fire’: An Exploration of Marginalisation and Social Exclusion

This research paper delves deeply into the socially marginalised sections and their social exclusion in Indian society, as highlighted in Mahesh Dattani’s selected plays. The researcher will analyse the live situations critically, exploring the selected plays in the light of rational humanism. The purpose of the paper is to trace such blind age-long beliefs and prejudices that make the powerless and voiceless innocent human beings marginalised and socially excluded even in the modern, educated I