Shashi wrote several novels, short stories and children books. She won several literary awards in India. Her mind focused on the Indian women the house hold and society. The status of women lay unquestionable traditional status. But she expects her change of women role in the society against the domination of men. Shashi needs Indian women should have a rightful status for women as seen in India’s ancient scriptures. Shashi’s novel reveals that women are entangled in the complex, difficult, social and psychological problem. Deshpande’s women characters seek their selfhood within the orbit of family and relationship. Her novels analyses an essential problem of our time without giving any solution. Her heroines are neither goddesses nor strong minded superior powers and at the same time they are vulnerable because of an unfamiliar bond of …show more content…
She has treated the everyday common and ordinary experiences through which a middle class women is going. A middle class working women is her protagonist of every novel. Deshpande’s protagonists of novel are stronger for they attempt to resolve their problems by a process of temporary withdrawal from their traditional assigned role. Shashi Deshpande is one of the novelists whom you can read with seriousness shashi Deshpande is a well known name in the field of Indian literature. She pursued her education in Dharwad, Bombay and Bangalore. She received degrees in economics and law. In fact she was a gold medalist. After getting married she shifted to Bombay, she decided to pursue a course in journalism. She got herself enrolled in the “Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan “Thereafter, she took up a job as a journalist in the magazine. She began writing and the first short story that she wrote got published in 1970. Shashi Deshpande Dark Holds No Terror’s” was published in 1980. She had written a novel titled “That Long Silence” for her fabulous work in the novel. She received the Sahitya Academy award and vanjangudn thirumalamba