Her personality was one of lightning and thunder. Draupadi had developed a strength to bear the trials of life. No doubt she enjoyed her status as a queen and as a princess but she was not given any respect or honour by men. This means Draupadi is not only the central character of this greatest epic of the world but her character is symbolic in many ways, her status and sufferings are like a double yarn of life in which the pendlum of life moves between two extremes from joy to sorrow and from tears to similes. It is true and many critics are of the opinion that if there was no character of Draupadi present in Mahabharata, there was then no Mahabharata at all. Abstract: The inner most narrative kernel of Mahabarta tells us the story of a symbolic character called Draupadi. , (An open access scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, monthly, and fully refereed journals.) (PhD Research Scholar) Draupadi an epitome of patience and forgiveness Born out of holy pyre was as pure as the fire itself Her life a saga of sufferings and disgrace But still an epitome of feminity and feminism She was a mother of five sons and was never given the status of mother She had five husbands – but she had none She had given no Joy, no sense of victory, No honour as wife no honour as mother Only the status of queen and an empty crown. Key Words: Marginalization, Suppressed, Alienation. This study intends to analyze the inhibited and marginalized identities of the male characters in M.T’s selected works focusing mainly on Randamoozham and Oru Vadakkan Veeragadha which are the representative works of his milieu. Story of Chandu, who is considered as ‘betrayer’ in the Vadakkanpaattukal (Ballads of the North) is reconstructed by M.T. Both Chandu and Bhima, who were popularly misunderstood, are strongly uplifted and brought to the front by the author. Gita Krishnankutty translated the novel Randamoozham into English, which is entitled, Bhima: Lone Warrior. The theme of human alienation and marginalization runs though most of his works: Appunni in Naalukettu, Sethumadhavan in Kaalam, Karunan Master of Vanaprastham, Velayudhan in Iruttinte Athmaav, Bhima in Randamoozham, Chandu in Oru Vadakkan Veeragadha are all representatives of the stifled individuals. Vasudevan Nair provides a rather resilient expression to the suppressed male voices in his works.
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