Neither her family nor her friends, classmates, or society understands her. The protagonist of the play Sarita, throughout her life, faced a series of problems because of her state of living as a lesbian. People got astonished after seeing a lesbian directly on stage whom they do not like to see in a real-life.
With this play's publication, Tendulkar brought a turning point in the Indian theatre for the conventional audience to see the darkest reality of society and human existence. Being a homosexual is not a choice on their own, but they are born with this quality called the people 'the deformity.' Through this play, Tendulkar raised the hot and burning contemporary issue of Homosexuality, which another writer of his era did not touch. They are mentally, socially, and physically torcher and mocked by the people. In our society, homosexuals are treated with great humiliation. This paper aims to present the problems faced by a lesbian, Sumitra Devi, in Tendulkar's play A Friend's Talk.
