EXPLORING THE SOCIO-CULTURAL DYNAMICS: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES AND GENDER NARRATIVES IN THE WORKS OF MANJULA PADMANABHAN

This thesis has examined socio-cultural factors that are also significant problemsfor Indians. She is an Indian playwright, novelist, short-story author, illustrator, journalist, and cartoonist. She also composes plays for theatre presentations. I have studied to assess her two plays and two novels for my thesis. The two plays are Harvest and Lights Out, while the two novels are Escape and the Island of Lost Girls. Poverty, unemployment, gender issues, violence, trans sexuality, disability, technocracy, patriarchy, and marginalization have been examined. Current and urban conditions are exemplified by people who are perceptive and flexible. Padmanabhan has brought up one of the most important issues facing Indians, namely unemployment and poverty, which has given rise to the human organ trade. In her play Harvest, Manjula Padmanabhan explores the interaction between agrarian and industrial civilization via telecommunications’ Om Prakash is from a rural background.