The Image of Women in the Short Stories of Shashi Deshpande.

      Аннотация: Woman, a definition of Man? Or is she a flesh and bone for pleasure? Or a ray of light that illuminates the life of a man? Come on... let's be holistic in treating her with an opulent gesture of love and affection. Woman is the tower of tolerance and restores harmony at home and society with her magnificent elegance and pride. Padma Shri Shashi Deshpande is one of the famous writers in Indian Writing in English with her presentation of women in traditional and modern methods of living. she emphatically highlights the Indian women in her short stories with various themes like marriage, gender discrimination, love and lust, patriarchy that are presented in the book. Deshpande is an excellent writer with her creativity in story writing and also as a novelist.

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