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Women In Shashi Deshpande's A Matter Of Time

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Shashi Deshpande, a well-known Indian women novelist in English is at her poignant best in exploring the image of the middle class Indian woman who ‘slips in and out of different shells’ of her life and very courageously confronts the truth. She is the winner of the Padmashri award in 2009 for her literary achievements in writing few books for children, short stories and more than ten novels. A major aspect of her writings is her presentation of the contemporary Indian society. The novel, A Matter of Time revolves around the mystery being unravelled behind the ‘horrifying story of loss and agony’ of the characters. The novel demonstrates the evolution of man-woman relationship through four generations, Manorama and Vithalrao belong to the first generation, Kalyani and Shripati belong to the second, Sumi and Gopal to the third generation whereas Aru, Charu and Seema belong to the fourth generation. As Shashi Deshpande’s novels are always crowded with people, the present novel under study too has neatly knitted a number of females closely together. The wavering narrative technique of the novel offers readers a comprehensive view of the story with its ins and outs.
It is a projection of three women, Sumi, her mother-Kalyani and Kalyani’s cousin sister, Goda, who are destined to undergo the traumatic experience of ‘desertion’ by males in their lives. Aru, the 18 year- old girl, daughter of Sumi struggles to comprehend the destined roles of wives and daughter in case

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