Nayanatara Sahgal Character Analysis

Title: Portrayal of women in the novels of nayanatara sahgal
Introduction:
Nayanatra Sahgal is one of the most famous literary writer of Indo-Anglian novelists. Her women characters come from the different sections of the society. In her novels, there is no sign of traditional and conventional views like „weakness, thy name is woman‟ or „Woman is a bundle of sin‟. She shows in her novels how the mind of a woman passes through never stopping pain. Sahgal‟s woman refuses to be an accepter of suffering and sacrificing lot. She wants her individual identity and fulfillment. Sahgal is of the opinion that “everything surrounding the writer is material for novel…All material comes from real life….generally draws on one‟s own experience or someone else‟s

Sahgal sticks absolutely to the people she knows closely; she does not try to write about the middle class or the poor Indian villager just to conform with the accepted image of India. Her range of characters lessen the complications of her technique; she does not have to make an attemt to present Indian conversation in English as most of her characters are the kind of people who would talk and think in English in real life.
Methodology:
Nayanatara sahgal used stream of consciousness technique in her novels. She started a journey within herself to show the private consciousness of her women character. The attempt of sahgal to project women as the central figure in presenting women has been very successful. Nayanatara sahgal also used psychoanalysis technique in her novels.psychoanalysis technique deals with a work of literature primary as an expression in fictional form of the state of mind and the structure of personality of the individual author.
In novel “The Day in shadow” the heroine simrit raman ,a writer is a divorcee just like sahgal herself and the novel shows the prejudice that she faces in male dominated Indian