Abstract
Down the ages man is considered to be the head of the family, the protector, the guide, the provider and the moral supporter. They are no more doormats or damsels in distress at the disposal of patriarchal norms. The elements of self-constructively have freed them from he Sisyphus curse of writhing into the domestic discomforts. Women in Indian fiction, the replicas of true Indian woman are no exception. Shashi Deshpande having perceived women’s conspicuous physical and psychical changes in the modern milieu, indoctrinates within them the self constructively to seek identity in her novels Roots and Shadows, The Binding Vine, The Dark Holds No Terrors, A Matter of Time and That Long Silence. She has appropriately presented her protagonists who unlike the western counterparts seek identity in a moderate mode within the family unit not ignoring their duties with the also notion of being liberated
Keywords: Shashi Deshpande, Domestic Discomforts, The Binding Vine, The Dark Holds No Terrors.
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