Strength of Saru in Shashi Deshpande’s the Dark Holds No Terror
k. v. s. Nivetha Priya M Phil scholar Govt Arts College (A) salem-7 Mail id: nevetha88@gmail.com
STRENGTH OF SARU IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THE DARK HOLDS NO TERROR
Shashi Deshpande is an award-winning Indian novelist. She published her first collection of short stories in 1978 and her first novel The Dark Holds No Terror in 1980. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel That Long Silence in 1980 and the PadmaShri award in 2009. She has written four children's books, a number of short stories and nine novels, besides several perceptive essays. Shashi Deshpande objectifies new female subjective experiences with a gynocentric vision. she basically reflects on the problems and concerns of the middle class Indian women. Her writings , rooted in the culture in which she lives, remain sensitive to the common everyday events and experiences and they give artistic expression to something that is simple and mundane. Her subjectivity is peculiarly Indian in the sense that it is born out of predicament of Indian omen placed between contradictory identitites; tradition and modernity, family and profession, culture and nature.
Most of Shashi Deshpande's heroines are neither traditional nor radical in her ideas and practice. She might walk out of her home in protest against her sufferings but gradually realizes that walking out dose not solve her problems. In her writings, she focuses on women’s issues. The women deprived of love, understanding and companionship is the centre of her work.
The Dark Holds No Terrors` is a masterpiece by Shashi Deshpande. The central character of the story wanted to come out of the patriarchical society. The darkness, the nothingness, the
STRENGTH OF SARU IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THE DARK HOLDS NO TERROR
Shashi Deshpande is an award-winning Indian novelist. She published her first collection of short stories in 1978 and her first novel The Dark Holds No Terror in 1980. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel That Long Silence in 1980 and the PadmaShri award in 2009. She has written four children's books, a number of short stories and nine novels, besides several perceptive essays. Shashi Deshpande objectifies new female subjective experiences with a gynocentric vision. she basically reflects on the problems and concerns of the middle class Indian women. Her writings , rooted in the culture in which she lives, remain sensitive to the common everyday events and experiences and they give artistic expression to something that is simple and mundane. Her subjectivity is peculiarly Indian in the sense that it is born out of predicament of Indian omen placed between contradictory identitites; tradition and modernity, family and profession, culture and nature.
Most of Shashi Deshpande's heroines are neither traditional nor radical in her ideas and practice. She might walk out of her home in protest against her sufferings but gradually realizes that walking out dose not solve her problems. In her writings, she focuses on women’s issues. The women deprived of love, understanding and companionship is the centre of her work.
The Dark Holds No Terrors` is a masterpiece by Shashi Deshpande. The central character of the story wanted to come out of the patriarchical society. The darkness, the nothingness, the