SOCIO-CULTURAL EXPLORATIONS IN SHASHI DESHPANDE'S "THE DARK HOLDS NO TERROR"

In Shashi Deshpande's novels, we can find the variety of characters too. In Deshpande's literary world there are characters taken from almost all the sections of life. They are medical practitioners and writers, educated housewives, uneducated ones and maidservants. Besides poverty, bereavement and such other common adversities, there are some causes of suffering exclusively for the female. Deshpande renders with sympathetic understanding the variety of suffering a woman has to undergo. Sometimes the suffering is attached to the social taboos, and sometimes the women are silenced in the name of family honor, and are compelled to digest torture. Shashi Deshpande usually describes Indian women in her novels. That is why the condition of women in our families. Shashi Deshpande's sincere attempt to break the silence of women has been widely acclaimed in home and abroad. Her clear understanding of human relationship, her close observation of the way of the world, her unbiased attitude to dogmas and movement enforced me to do the present attempt in this direction.