• Mohana Sundari

  Author

Women in India were unaware of their miserable condition. It is in the post
independence period the women’s quest for identity of her own commenced. The 20th century
saw the shift from outer to inner sensibilities and no one can better understand a man or
woman better a feminine writer. In modern English fiction a number of women novelists have
arrived on the literary scene, they have set out making new forays in to the world of women.
Nayantara Sahgal being a feminist writer has emphasized in her novels on freedom and a new
definition of the New Women. Sahgal’s heroines are well aware of the injustice done to them in
their marriage and they come out of this traditional bond.

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