Economic Exploitation– The theme of economic exploitation is dominant and the important aspect of the play. The family of Jaya, Jeetu , Om and Ma are one family belonging to the lowest strata of Indian society. Om decides to go look for a job and due to their economic instability and poor background he did not understand what mess he is about to enter by joining the Interplanta Services. The family of Om is exploited due to their finance and economy as Om decides to sell his own body organs and parts to Ginni also Virgil to consume him who will pay them a sum of money from it. The economic exploitation is seen everywhere throughout the play where Ginni tells that they provide luxurious life for people like them and they provide them with life which reflects the economic exploitation where the poor are taken advantage of their economic status. It becomes more evident when Virgil tells Jaya that they prey on young couples to consume their bodies to stay alive for long and impregnant their wives to bear a child for them. This also shows the economic exploitation of the poor and breaking their family ties apart.
Conditions of the Poor sections of Indian Society – The conditions of the poor sections of Indian society is worst. They are considered and treated as sub humans with nobody to speak up for them. They are the subaltern who are exploited by the West for their organs in exchange of wealth. They are treated nothing more of an animal about to be slaughtered for rich class society who will consume their bodies to stay alive. This treatment reflects the worst economic and social status of poor in the society. Jeetu resembles a man who is a gigolo and sleeps with both man and a woman to earn money. His condition also reflects the type of job they are into and do in the society to keep themselves alive.
Body Commodification– Body commodification is the important theme of the play. Human body and its trafficking is presented beautifully in the play. Jeetu becomes a victim of human trafficking and organ transplant. Ginni watches every move of their family and later it was realize that Ginni was just nothing but a computer animated pet to seduce Jeetu to submit his body to Virgil. Jeetu’s eyes were taken first for the transplant and later her entire body was transplanted into Virgil’s body which made Jaya furious and question their work. Throughout the play, the body transplant is the issue and it was Om who was supposed to donate the organ but Jeetu was taken and he died giving his body to Virgil who had consumed his entire body.
Technology and Cyberculture – The role of technology and cyberculture is also dominant theme in the play. The Contact Module was not just an electronic gadget that connects the two countries together but also to gaze at the inner world of Om, Jaya, Ma and Jeetu. It was exposed later in the play that Virgil knew everything that the family tried to hide away from him. Virgil told Jaya that he recorded their movements and their conversations as well as knows about Jeetu and his relationship with other family members. The most important aspect to know was that the Contact Module could see and record even if it was offline and the family was tricked thinking that Virgil cannot hear or see their talk and actions. Ma seems to be disappeared at the end of the play and her love for TV reflects that mankind is getting attached to technology and Ma’s inability to separate from TV also shows the imprisonment of mankind in the world of technology. When the Agents came to install the newly ordered SuperDeluxe TV ordered by Ma, she was engaged towards it and the sealing of the nest that keeps the air in is symbolical of Ma’s being captured in the world of technology.
Objectification of Woman – There is an objectification of a woman in the play. It is however generalize where Jeetu objectifies Jaya even though it is immoral but Jaya’s desires and infidel relationship surpasses beyond the societal norms invoking a sense of implications that moral choices are always ambiguous. In the play, Virgil uses Ginni who is a woman through animating her to seduce man into donating their bodies and it is evident when Jeetu falls for Ginni and decided to give everything to Ginni. This reflects that a woman body is used to seduce man to donate everything in the name of her. This shows the objectification of a woman in the society.
Post-Colonial Elements – The play can also be studied from a post-colonial lens. It is a post-colonial world India where the East is still exploited and dominated by the West in different ways. Ginni stereotypes the Indian society when she believes that they would have been swiped away during the plague implying that the East or India is dirty and unhygienic. The postcolonial element of binary opposition is well deposited in the play where Ginni or Virgil and Ma, Jaya , Om and Jeetu shows the colonized and colonizer relationship. Bhabha states that the relationship between the colonizer and colonized is always ambivalent and in the play it is ambivalent between Om and Ginni where Om has a mixed feelings where he hates and love the relationship at the same time. He is in favour of Ginni sometimes and he hates for getting in trouble sometimes. However, the postcolonialism has always strive to subvert European stereotypes of the East and the action of Virgil who consumes human body of the Third World countries reflects the cannibalistic attitude of the First World Countries which they completely deny it but they projects unto the East. Jaya erects and stands against Virgil calling his action as cannaibalistic shows the subversion of European stereotypes of the East. The postcolonial element of subalternity can also be seen in the play where Jaya is the subaltern woman but she is the only vocal woman who is doubly marginalized in the society. She is marginalized by the patriarchal society where Ma and Om dislikes her for having relationship with Jeetu for she believes that she has lost Om as well as Jeetu as he is dead and she is again marginalized by the imperial strategy of Virgil who tries to persuade and seduce her to implant a device on her belly to make her pregant. Jaya represents a subaltern woman who stood throughout the play and resist the imperial strategy of Virgil and subverts his power on her.
