The Feminine Experience In Shobha De’s Novels

Abstract

It is an undeniable fact that today women have come out to demystify and restructure male-defined gender-specific roles. Home and hearth are no more their only destiny, nor bearing and rearing their sole cause for being. Things have changed. A whole new world of opportunities and options is spread ahead them. They are determined to realize their personality, to achieve self-dependency through education and enterprise, and to enjoy the thrill of life as self-reliant persons. Self-development, and not mute submergence in domestic mire, is the big aim of the contemporary woman.