A Liberated Woman Analysis

The emotional deprivation is the centre of focus in most of her works. Most of her short stories and novels have been translated into a number of Indian as well as European languages. She translated two plays written by her father, Adya Rangacharya Shriranga, as well as his memoirs, from Kannada into English, and a novel by Gauri Deshpande from Marathi into English. At present, Shashi Deshpande lives in Bangalore with her pathologist husband.

Her novels include The Dark Holds No Terrors, If I Die Today, Come Up and Be Dead, Roots and Shadows, That Long Silence, The Binding Vine, A Matter of Time, Small Remedies, Moving On, In the Country of Deceit and Shadow Play.

Her Short Story collections are The Legacy and Other Stories, It Was Dark, The Miracle and Other Stories, It Was the Nightingale and The Intrusion and Other Stories. She has written the Screenplay for Drishte in 1990. Her Children’s books are A Summer Adventure, The Hidden Treasure, The Only Witness and The Narayanpur Incident.

Shashi Deshpande is a multi-faceted genius. Her confidence as a writer relaxes her readers and she takes them with her way of narration. She focusses her attention on Indian families into which any reader of Indian soil can easily enter. Anyone who has

An early short story, A Liberated Woman, is about a young woman who falls in love with a man of a different caste, and marries him against her parents wish. She becomes a successful doctor, but her marriage breaks up because of her success. The Dark Holds No Terrors, Shashi Deshpande 's first novel, which is chosen for the present study seems to have developed from this short story. Sarita, the heroine, becomes a doctor, and marries Manohar against the consent of her parents. Her problem begins when she establishes her name in her profession and she fails to solve the communication gap with her husband. Sarita goes to her parental home, to escape from the problems where she regains her strength and clarity of vision