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Shashi Deshpande gives the implication that the women stand on a very narrow edge between morality and immorality, a momentary flaw on the part of a woman, a slightest deviation from the path of normality can earn for her the stigma for the rest of her life. In this respect we humbly put the words by Y.S. Sunita Reddy who opines: "Our society has been so conditioned as to categorize women as immoral on the slightest deviation on their part from the normal course of behaviour." Sharma, Siddhartha, Shashi Deshpande’s Novels: A Feminist Study, New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2005, p. 71.
If Madhu would never have divulged the truth to Som, her life would never have been in distress. If she would have hidden what had happened with her in the early stage of her life, she would never faced any problem in life. Deshpande shows the discrepancy of society regarding the sexuality of women. On one hand women are made conscious about their 'bodies’ through their journey from …show more content…

Jaya finds some rare qualities in Kamat which she sought in her husband Mohan. Kamat gives Iaya that particular shelter which she needed badly. Even he encouraged Jaya’s writing and provided valuable suggestions. The complication was created when Kamat himself felt attracted towards her. Jaya was mentally dedicated to her husband, and she gave Kamat entirely a different status in her heart, but, Kamat could not realized her feeling towards him like her father. Though some critics opine that Kamat reminded Iaya of her suppressed sexuality, Deshpane, the author herself does not approve the claim. She rather has tried to project a very positive kind of relationship between a man and a woman which is mutually reciprocal, and altruistic in nature. I his relation should be devoid of any sense of carnality. In an interview with Lakhsmi Holmstrom Deshpande

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