This blog is written as part of a Thinking Activity given by Prakruti Ma’am (Department of English, MKBU). The task involves responding to specific questions in a blog format to develop a critical and analytical understanding of Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions and its themes of communalism, identity, memory, and generational conflict.
The Myth of Finality: Memory, Identity, and Communal Conflict in Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions
Discuss the significance of the title Final Solutions.
When Mahesh Dattani sat down to name his 1992 play about communal violence in India, he didn't choose a soft, poetic phrase. He reached for one of the most chilling terms in modern history "the Final Solution" and turned it into the title of a domestic drama set in a middle-class Gujarati household. That choice is not incidental. It is, arguably, the single most loaded interpretive decision in the entire play, and understanding why Dattani made it unlocks much of what Final Solutions is trying to say about religion, memory, and the impossibility of easy answers.
A Deliberate Borrowing from History
The phrase "Final Solution" is inseparable from the Nazi regime's euphemism for the genocide of European Jews during the Holocaust a bureaucratic, chillingly clinical label for mass extermination. By lifting this exact phrase and placing it at the head of a play about Hindu-Muslim tension in post-independence India, Dattani is doing something bold: he is drawing a direct line between the everyday prejudices we might dismiss as "just how things are" and the catastrophic violence that unchecked communal hatred can eventually produce.
The title functions almost like a warning label. It tells the audience, before a single line of dialogue is spoken, that what looks like a family squabble over houseguests is, in fact, connected to the same logic that has fueled genocide elsewhere in the world.
This is a technique many post-independence Indian playwrights have used grounding a local, intimate story in a much larger, often global, historical frame. Dattani's decision to use this particular phrase raises the emotional and moral stakes of the play from its very first page.
The Plural That Changes Everything
Here's where the title gets genuinely clever. The historical phrase is singular the Final Solution, one monstrous, totalizing plan. Dattani's title is plural: Final Solutions. That single letter "s" does an enormous amount of work.
Throughout the play, nearly every character is, in effect, pursuing their own private "solution" to the problem of communal hostility:
- Hardika solves her pain by hardening into permanent distrust of Muslims, a defense mechanism rooted in the murder of her father during Partition and the abuse she suffered for befriending her Muslim neighbor, Zarine.
- Aruna solves her discomfort through rigid religious ritual, treating contact with Bobby and Javed as literal contamination that requires purification.
- Ramnik solves his inherited guilt over his family's business, built on cheating Zarine's family after Partition by extending hospitality to the two Muslim strangers who show up at his door.
- Javed solves his childhood humiliation, when a neighbor treated a letter he touched as unclean, by embracing violence, becoming a hired agitator who deliberately provokes riots.
- Bobby solves the same problem by trying to erase his religious identity altogether, going by an anglicized name and trying to pass as secular.
None of these are actually solutions in any durable sense. They're coping mechanisms, defense strategies, and inherited traumas dressed up as convictions. By pluralizing the title, Dattani suggests that communal conflict isn't a single problem waiting for a single fix it's a tangle of personal wounds, each person nursing their own fractured logic, all colliding under one roof over the course of one tense night.
Why "Final" Is the Real Irony
If the plural undercuts the idea of one master solution, the word "Final" undercuts the idea that any solution however partial could ever be permanent. The play is structured almost entirely around the un-finality of communal violence in India.
It opens with a riot triggered by a Rath Yatra procession passing through a Muslim neighborhood itself an echo of real events Dattani researched, including the Rath Yatra riots in Ahmedabad. It is haunted by the memory of Partition in 1947. And it was written and first performed in the direct shadow of the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, one of the most consequential communal flashpoints in modern Indian history.
Read against this backdrop, the title becomes deeply ironic. There is no "final" solution to communal violence in India because the violence itself is not a one-time event it is cyclical, recurring across generations in different forms: Partition, the 1984 anti-Sikh violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination, the Babri Masjid demolition, the Godhra incident of 2002, and so on.
Every time society believes it has reached some resolution, the underlying prejudice resurfaces in a new guise. The play's own ending reinforces this: after a night of painful confrontation, confession, and even a moment of genuine grace, Bobby and Javed walk off and rejoin the masked Mob/Chorus that has loomed over the entire play. The cycle does not break. It simply resets.
The One Moment That Comes Closest to a "Solution"
If the play has a candidate for an actual solution, it arrives near the end, when Bobby picks up the idol of Krishna from Aruna's prayer room. He holds it, unharmed, and declares that nothing sacred has been destroyed by his touch that mutual faith and tolerance, not physical purity or religious boundary-keeping, are what protect what is truly sacred.
It's a striking, theatrically bold moment. But notice: Dattani frames it as a personal, almost spontaneous act of moral courage, not a policy, not a political resolution, not a "final" anything. It's offered as a possibility, a glimpse of what could be not a fix that resolves the play's tensions once and for all.
This is, I think, the play's real thesis, embedded quietly in its own title: the only genuine response to communal hatred is not a single dramatic, "final" act but an ongoing, effortful practice of empathy and understanding something that by definition can never be finished or finalized. The moment you declare the problem "solved," you've stopped doing the work that keeps it from returning.
Personal Secrets, Political Parallels
There's also a quieter, more intimate layer to the title. Hardika spends the entire play seeking her own personal "final solution" to decades of resentment toward Muslims. By the play's end, she learns the truth: her hatred was, in part, manufactured. Her father-in-law and husband had cheated her friend Zarine's family out of their business after Partition, and their prohibition of her friendship with Zarine was less about religious purity than about hiding that crime. Her "solution" hating an entire community was built on a foundation of economic betrayal dressed up as communal difference.
This mirrors the play's larger political argument. Communal hatred, Dattani suggests, is frequently not organic it is manufactured, exploited, and redirected by those with economic or political interests, then passed down through generations as if it were simply "how things are." A "final solution" aimed at the wrong target (an entire religious community) can never actually resolve anything, because it was never addressing the real problem in the first place.
Conclusion: A Title That Argues With Itself
What makes Final Solutions such a resonant title is that it essentially argues against itself. It borrows the vocabulary of absolute, monstrous resolution, only to spend two hours dismantling the very idea that such resolution is possible or even desirable. Through its shift from singular to plural, and through its central irony around the word "final," Dattani's title captures the play's core argument: communal hatred in India is not a single wound with a single cure, but many overlapping wounds personal, historical, economic, political that can only be addressed through sustained understanding and acceptance, never through one climactic, "final" act.
In that sense, the title isn't just a clever literary flourish. It's a compact thesis statement for the entire play one that continues to feel urgent every time a new communal flashpoint reminds us that history's "final solutions" are rarely final at all.
What is the significance of Hardika's/Daksha's diary in the play? Discuss how memory shapes the perspectives of the characters in the play.
Memory as the Engine of Every Character's Perspective
Dattani structures nearly the entire play around the idea that present-day behavior is a direct inheritance of unresolved memory. Each character's stance toward Bobby and Javed on this one night is really a reaction to something that happened long before.
- Hardika filters every Muslim she meets through the memory of her father's murder and her own punishment for crossing communal lines. Her hostility isn't really about Bobby and Javed as individuals it's about a decades-old injury she has never been allowed (or allowed herself) to reexamine.
- Ramnik is driven by an inherited memory that isn't even fully his own the knowledge of his father's and grandfather's betrayal of Zarine's family. His hospitality toward Bobby and Javed is, in part, an attempt to atone for a historical wrong he didn't personally commit but still carries the guilt of.
- Javed is shaped by a specific childhood memory: being made to feel unclean after touching a neighbor's mail. That single humiliating incident, replayed and magnified over years, transforms him from an ordinary boy into someone who now makes his living provoking riots. His rage in the present is really an old memory demanding to be avenged.
- Bobby carries a different kind of memory of watching Javed's humiliation as a bystander, which pushes him toward the opposite response: erasing his own religious markers and trying to move through the world as unmarked and secular, hoping to sidestep the pain he witnessed.
- Aruna operates less from personal trauma and more from inherited ritual memory generations of religious practice passed down as unquestioned instruction. Her discomfort with Bobby and Javed isn't rooted in a specific incident the way Hardika's or Javed's is; it's rooted in an internalized communal memory she has never had reason to interrogate.
- Smita stands slightly apart, caught between generations. Her discomfort with Bobby's presence comes from a recent personal memory (their romantic history) rather than a communal one, and her friendship with Tasneem shows a different relationship to memory altogether one open to revision rather than fixed by old grievances.
The larger pattern: Dattani uses memory not as background information but as the actual cause of the play's present-tense crisis. Every character's "position" on communalism turns out, on inspection, to be a specific personal or inherited memory that was never examined, corrected, or resolved. The Mob/Chorus above the stage anonymous, masked, interchangeable represents what happens when this individual, particular memory calcifies into collective, faceless hatred: personal wounds become communal ideology.
The play's ultimate argument is that these memories, however real the pain behind them, are often distorted, incomplete, or manipulated (as with Hardika's, which turns out to rest on a hidden business betrayal rather than pure religious enmity). Dattani seems to suggest that the first step toward the "understanding and empathy" Bobby calls for at the play's climax is not forgetting the past, but actually re-examining it honestly something almost none of the characters, except perhaps Bobby in his final gesture, manage to do fully.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Hardika’s/Daksha’s diary is much more than a record of the past; it is a dramatic bridge between memory and the present. Through it, Dattani reveals how personal trauma, Partition, family experiences, and religious prejudice continue to influence the characters long after the original events have passed. Hardika’s hostility, Javed’s anger, Ramnik’s guilt, Aruna’s inherited beliefs, and Bobby’s desire for reconciliation all show different ways in which memory shapes identity and behaviour.
However, the revelation that Hardika’s understanding of the past is incomplete also shows that memory can be selective, manipulated, and misleading. Dattani therefore does not ask the characters to simply forget the past; rather, he suggests the need to re-examine it honestly and empathetically. In this sense, the diary becomes both a record of suffering and a means of exposing the roots of communal prejudice, making memory central to the play’s larger search for understanding and reconciliation.
Analyze Aruna's character from a post-feminist perspective.
In Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions, Aruna represents a complex form of female identity, religious belief, and personal agency. As a devout Hindu wife and mother, she strongly follows rituals, purity practices, and traditional values. At first, she may appear to be simply a product of patriarchal and religious conditioning.
However, a post-feminist perspective allows us to see her more critically as a woman who actively constructs and defends her identity within the social and religious structures available to her. Her resistance to Ramnik, her control over the domestic-religious sphere, and her conflict with Smita reveal that she is not merely passive or oppressed. Through Aruna, Dattani presents the complexity of female agency, showing that women can exercise independence even when their choices emerge from conservative beliefs.
Positioning Aruna Within the Play's Female Triad
Dattani builds his three female characters Hardika, Aruna, and Smita as three distinct responses to the same pressure of communal identity, spanning three generations. Where Hardika's consciousness is shaped by the trauma of Partition and Smita represents a liberal, boundary-crossing younger generation, Aruna occupies the middle position: a devout, ritual-observant wife and mother whose identity is constructed almost entirely around religious orthodoxy.
A post-feminist reading resists treating her simply as a "victim" of patriarchal religion, and instead asks what kind of selfhood and agency she is actually exercising within that orthodoxy.
Ritual Authority as a Domain of Power
Post-feminist criticism moves away from framing women only as subjects to be liberated from patriarchal structures, and looks instead at how women carve out spheres of authority and selfhood within those structures even conservative ones. In the Gandhi household, the domestic-religious sphere the prayer room, questions of purity, who may touch the family's sacred objects is Aruna's domain, and hers alone.
Ramnik controls the business and makes the decision to let Bobby and Javed into the house; Hardika controls the emotional register of memory and suspicion; but ritual and sanctity belong entirely to Aruna. Her fierce reaction to Bobby touching the idol of Krishna isn't simply irrational fear it's a defense of the one space in the household where her authority is uncontested. Read this way, her orthodoxy is not pure submission to patriarchal-religious convention; it is also the exercise of the only real power available to her.
Protest as Assertion of Selfhood — Even in a Conservative Direction
What makes Aruna interesting from a post-feminist lens is that she voices open resistance to her husband's decision, despite social and marital expectation that she defer to him.
She does not silently accept Ramnik's hospitality toward Bobby and Javed; she objects, resists, and makes her discomfort loudly known throughout the night. Dattani's female characters are noted for their capacity for independent thought and their refusal to be, in the words of one critical reading of the play, merely "a shadow of male" authority and Aruna embodies this even though the content of her protest is conservative rather than progressive.
This is an important nuance for post-feminist analysis: assertion of individual voice and refusal of passive compliance do not have to align with liberal or "emancipated" values to count as genuine selfhood. Aruna's stubborn defense of her own convictions, even against her husband and daughter, is itself a form of agency just one channeled through religious orthodoxy rather than secular individualism.
The Capacity for Transformation
Where Aruna most clearly demonstrates post-feminist "fluid identity" rather than fixed, essentialized womanhood is in her arc across the play. By Act III, under the combined pressure of the night's events and the arguments made by Smita, Bobby, and Javed, Aruna's fixed positions begin to loosen she is left without a ready response to the younger generation's rational challenges to her prejudice, and her attitude visibly shifts toward a more open engagement with religious difference.
This capacity for revision is significant: post-feminist thought treats identity as something continually renegotiated rather than a permanently fixed ideological position, and Aruna despite representing the play's most rigid religious conservatism is shown to be capable of movement, not caricatured as static or beyond change.
Aruna and Smita: Two Models of Female Consciousness in Conflict
The mother-daughter relationship between Aruna and Smita gives the post-feminist reading its sharpest edge. Smita explicitly describes feeling suffocated by her mother's religious rituals and asserts her own individual, secular identity in direct opposition to Aruna's worldview.
Rather than presenting one woman as "correct" and the other as merely oppressed, Dattani stages a genuine generational clash between two forms of feminine consciousness one rooted in inherited communal-religious identity, one rooted in liberal individualism. A post-feminist reading resists collapsing this into a simple liberation narrative (daughter escapes, mother remains trapped) and instead treats both women as exercising distinct, internally coherent forms of agency, shaped by different historical moments and available vocabularies of selfhood.
Conclusion
Aruna is not simply a mouthpiece for patriarchal religious orthodoxy passed down unchallenged she is a woman actively defending a domain of authority she has built for herself, voicing dissent even against her husband's wishes, and ultimately proving capable of ideological movement under pressure.
A post-feminist perspective finds in her not a flattened symbol of oppression, but a complex case study in how women assert identity and agency even from within and partly through conservative and religious frameworks, complicating any simple binary between "liberated" and "oppressed" female consciousness in the play.
Provide a comparative character analysis of Daksha & Smita.
Introduction
Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions moves across three overlapping planes of time and consciousness: the mob outside, the Gandhi family in the present, and the memory-space of Daksha in 1948. It is through this layered structure that Dattani places Daksha, the fifteen-year-old bride of the Partition era, and Smita, her modern-day granddaughter, into implicit dialogue with one another.
Though separated by roughly forty years and radically different historical circumstances, the two characters are built by Dattani as deliberate mirror images two young women each straining against the religious and familial expectations imposed upon them, each drawn toward a friendship that crosses the Hindu-Muslim divide, and each forced to reckon with communal violence erupting around them at a formative moment in their lives.
A comparative reading of these two characters illuminates one of the play's central questions: does history in matters of communal hatred repeat itself, or can a new generation break the cycle?
Historical Position and Circumstance
Daksha enters the play through flashback, as a young bride newly married into the Gandhi household in 1948, in the immediate, still-raw aftermath of Partition. Her formative experiences are inseparable from the trauma of national division. Smita, by contrast, is a modern, educated young woman living in the same household two generations later, whose formative crisis is a smaller-scale but structurally identical communal riot triggered by the disruption of a Rath Yatra procession. Dattani's decision to frame both women's youth against outbreaks of religious violence is not incidental it suggests that despite the passage of decades, the underlying conditions producing communal conflict in India have not meaningfully changed, only their specific triggers.
Friendship Across the Communal Divide
The most direct structural parallel between the two women is their friendship with a Muslim girl. As a young bride, Daksha finds a rare space of freedom and joy at the home of her friend Zarine, where she can listen to the songs of her favourite singer, Noor Jehan, away from the restrictions of her in-laws' house. Smita's closest friend is similarly a Muslim girl, Tasneem, whose safety she anxiously monitors the moment the riot breaks out, and whose fiancé, Bobby, becomes central to the night's unfolding drama. In both cases, Dattani uses these friendships to demonstrate an instinctive reaching-across of the very boundary their families treat as fixed and sacred showing that at the level of individual relationship, communal division is neither natural nor inevitable.
Divergent Outcomes: Trauma Versus Continuity
Here the comparison sharpens into contrast. Daksha's friendship with Zarine is permanently and violently severed when Daksha's father is murdered during a riot an event that hardens her youthful openness into the lifelong suspicion and hostility that defines her as the elderly Hardika in the play's present. Smita's friendship with Tasneem, on the other hand, survives the night's crisis intact; nothing in the play suggests that Smita's affection for Tasneem, or her sympathetic curiosity toward Bobby and Javed, will curdle into her grandmother's kind of enduring animosity. This divergence is the crux of the comparison: it raises the possibility that Smita may escape the specific traumatic rupture that transformed Daksha into Hardika — while leaving open whether this is due to genuine generational progress, or simply because Smita has not yet been tested by a loss as devastating as her grandmother's.
The Language and Limits of Protest
Both women give voice to a shared feeling of confinement within their domestic and religious roles, though the manner of that expression differs sharply. Smita confronts her mother directly, pleading, "Please, mummy, don't try so hard! You are breaking me," openly rejecting years of enforced ritual observance. Daksha's protest, by contrast, is confined to the private pages of her diary a young girl's "childish scribble" recording thoughts she had no real avenue to voice aloud within the constraints of her 1948 household.
This shift from silent, hidden diary entries to direct, spoken confrontation marks one of the clearest signs of change between the two generations: where Daksha could only write her resistance in secret, Smita can speak hers aloud, to her mother's face, and demand to be heard.
The Diary as a Bridge Between Generations
The diary is what allows Daksha and Smita to remain in conversation across time, even though they never truly meet as equals Smita knows her grandmother only as the embittered, elderly Hardika. Through the diary's flashbacks, the audience learns that Hardika was once a girl remarkably like Smita: curious, open, drawn instinctively toward a friendship across the religious line.
This revelation retroactively reframes Hardika's hostility not as some innate or essential trait of her character, but as the endpoint of a personal history that Smita herself may still be in the process of writing. The diary thus functions as a warning embedded within the play's structure proof that even an empathetic, open-hearted young woman can, under the pressure of communal trauma and family silence, become closed and embittered by old age.
Daksha and Smita: A Comparative Character Analysis
Conclusion
Dattani's pairing of Daksha and Smita is not a simple contrast between a "traditional" grandmother and a "modern" granddaughter; it is a more unsettling suggestion that each generation of women in this family is compelled to negotiate the same essential crisis a friendship across the communal divide, tested by an eruption of religious violence under different historical conditions and with differing degrees of freedom to speak their resistance aloud.
Whether Smita will ultimately follow her grandmother's trajectory into lasting bitterness, or break the pattern altogether, is left deliberately unresolved at the play's close. That irresolution is entirely fitting for a play titled Final Solutions, whose central argument is that no generational outcome in the cycle of communal hatred can ever be treated as truly final.
Discuss the major arguments regarding the theme of communal divide in the play, as provided by the attached articles. Point out specific scenes from the play to justify the arguments.
Introduction
Across the critical readings of Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions from Dhiren Parmar's analytical study to C. K. Uma Devi's focused examination of communal tension a consistent set of arguments emerges about how the play stages and interrogates religious division in India.
These critics converge on several key mechanisms Dattani uses to dramatize communalism: inherited psychological trauma passed across generations, the theatrical device of the masked mob as a symbol of collective hatred, the political manufacturing of religious conflict, everyday rituals of purity and contamination, and economic motives concealed beneath religious rhetoric.
Examining these arguments alongside specific lines from the play shows how thoroughly Dattani grounds an abstract social problem in concrete, personal dramatic dialogue.
1. Communal Hatred as Inherited Psychological Trauma
Both critics identify Hardika/Daksha as the central case study in how prejudice is produced rather than innate, tracing her hostility to two wounds: her father's murder in a riot, and the destruction of her friendship with Zarine after her in-laws secretly ruined Zarine's family's shop.
This is dramatized directly when Hardika protests against sheltering Bobby and Javed, insisting: "They don't want equality. They want to be superior" (Act I). The line shows how a private, decades-old injury has hardened into a blanket judgment applied to anyone from the "other" community, regardless of their actual conduct.
2. The Mob/Chorus as the Machinery of Collective Hatred
Uma Devi highlights the masked Mob/Chorus as Dattani's central symbol of how individuals dissolve into collective hatred once provoked. This is justified by the chorus's escalating, self-reinforcing chant over the disrupted Rath Yatra:
Chorus 1,2,3: "This is our land! How dare they?"Chorus 1: "It is in their blood!"
The lines show accusation building on accusation with no single speaker or fixed argument precisely Dattani's point that mob hatred operates as contagion rather than reasoned conviction, and that the same voices, masked differently, could just as easily be shouting the opposite community's grievances.
3. Political and Economic Exploitation Beneath Religious Rhetoric
Communal conflict in the play is repeatedly shown to be manufactured or exploited rather than organic. Javed's radicalization began with a specific childhood humiliation, recounted by Bobby: after Javed touched a neighbor's letter, a man's voice ordered, "Leave it on the wall," then wiped the letter, the wall, and the gate clean of Javed's touch (Act III).
This single, quiet act of disgust not any grand ideological conviction set Javed on the path to becoming a hired agitator. The economic motive surfaces again in Ramnik's final confession to Hardika: "We burnt it... in the name of communal hatred" (Act III), revealing that the destruction of Zarine's family's shop, long framed as an act of religious necessity, was in truth business rivalry disguised as communal defense.
4. Everyday Rituals of Purity and Contamination
Communal division operates not only through violence but through domestic ritual food, touch, and purity. This is staged directly when Bobby lifts the idol of Krishna from Aruna's prayer room and declares: "See! I am touching God!...
He does not cringe from my touch" (Act III). Aruna's horrified reaction, and her earlier refusal to let Javed touch the household's drinking water, dramatize how contamination anxiety functions as one of the quieter, more persistent engines of communal separation one that requires no riot or mob, only a glass of water or a small clay idol.
5. The Cyclical, Unresolved Nature of Communal Violence
Both critiques stress that the play frames communalism as self-renewing rather than resolvable. This is built into the play's own structure: it opens amid curfew and riot, and Daksha's diary recalls an almost identical eruption forty years earlier following her father's murder.
The chorus's insistence that the procession has passed peacefully "for forty years!" before suddenly being attacked underscores how the same flashpoint recurs across generations with only the surface details changed. The play's closing image Bobby and Javed rejoining the masked chorus they had fled visually confirms that no single night's confrontation, however honest, breaks this cycle.
6. Individual Identity Versus Imposed Communal Identity
Characters throughout the play struggle to assert a private self against an imposed communal label. Bobby's confession to Ramnik makes this explicit: he changed his name from Babban because, unlike Javed, "I was ashamed of being myself... I chose to be called Bobby" (Act III).
Where Javed absorbs his community's wound and turns it outward into anger, Bobby absorbs the same prejudice inward, choosing self-erasure over confrontation. Both responses, the critics argue, are symptoms of the same underlying demand that individuals be defined first by religious category rather than by personal character.
Conclusion
Read together with the play's own dialogue, these critical arguments converge on a single claim: that communalism in Final Solutions is neither natural nor permanent, but a manufactured, inherited, and continually reproduced condition sustained by personal trauma passed down through generations, by the depersonalizing psychology of the mob, by political and economic manipulation disguised as religious conviction, and by the everyday rituals of purity most people never think to question.
The specific lines examined here Hardika's accusation of the two boys, the chorus's escalating chant, Bobby's account of Javed's humiliation, Ramnik's confession about the burnt shop, Bobby's declaration at the idol, and his admission about his own changed name do not simply illustrate these arguments abstractly.
They embody them in the exact words Dattani gives his characters, which is precisely why the play continues to be read as one of the most psychologically exact treatments of communal division in modern Indian theatre.
✅ Video Lecture
For a better understanding of Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions, a video lecture is provided below. The lecture explains the play’s major themes, characters, communal conflict, memory, identity, and the significance of the title.
Final Solutions by Mahesh Dattani- Part 1
Part : 2
Watch the play Final Solutions by Mahesh Dattani here, performed by my seniors from the Department of English, MKBU, Semester 3, Batch 2024–2026.
Our Department of English, MKBU, organised a screening of Mahesh Dattani’s play Final Solutions.
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