Luxury Corroding Nothingness Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest.

Abstract

This article investigates the issues of identity politics and dehumanization in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest (1997). The drama investigates the sociological and political consequences of identity, while also recognizing the transforming effects of late capitalism on physical landscapes. The drama investigates the conflict between personal desire, economic inequality, society expectations and the commodity of human life. Padmanabhan discusses the intersections of global capitalism. This paper contends that the play Harvest reveals the ideology of current capitalism by presenting pre-constituted people whose roles in society are preset. By investigating the dynamics of social identity, the study situates analysis within the politics of space in connection to power relations that reconstruct dominant hierarchical organization and its implications for subordinate governance.