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www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 fall back on. When they regain their composure, they either forget these relationships or are forced to turn their backs on them. The New Woman looks at sex without a spiritual and emotional base from a different perspective and sees absolutely no difference between rape and this kind of forced physical relationship. Gender discrimination is another ailment that women in most traditional societies are subjected to. Urmila remembers Kishore’ s father who never looked at his daughter Vanaa even though she tried her best to draw his attention, only because Kishore was there. Urmi strongly scoffs at the women who silently tolerate the torture inflicted upon them by their partners. She appeals Vanaa to assert herself and stop crawling before her husband so that he would go on bulldozing her. She becomes furious when she comes to know that Vanaa wasn’t given a choice before the medical termination of her pregnancy, though she wanted to have a son. As a woman aware of the new responsibilities in changing times, Urmi speaks highly in favour of the freedom of choice for woman but she, nevertheless, knows well that for a girl marriage is a kind of indemnity which provides her security and safeguards her from other people. Love, the binding vine, sustains all relationships, provides the strength to survive. Urmila recollects when she finds things slipping away from her hands, “And yet I think of Vanaa, heavily pregnant, sitting by me …I think Akka crying for Mira, of Inni’s grief when Papa told her about his illness …of the touch of grace …in Shakutai’ s hand when she covered me gently at night …”(203). These gestures of affection show the true value of love, an important ingredient in all human relationships . An in-depth analysis of Deshpande’s female characters reveal the trajectory of the physical, intellectual and psychological growth of the New Woman through their constant resistance, struggle and success. The apparent failures at different phases of their lives don’t jeopardize their inherent strength; on the contrary they awaken their superior selves and provide them the impetus to look forward for newer ways of living their lives. Notwithstanding their improved socio-economic position they always try their best to maintain a balanced social relationship. From the quagmire of their troubles and tribulations, they always rise victorious, not vanquished, rejuvenated, and not refurbished. Deshpande, unlike the feminists, doesn’t make her characters all time rebels against patriarchic hegemony; she makes them grow with their renewed knowledge of their own selves vis-à-vis the world they live in. Works Cited: Agarwal, Beena. Mosaic of the Fictional World of Shashi Deshpande. Delhi: Book Enclave, 2009. Atrey, Mukta and Viney Kirpal. Shashi Deshpande: A Feminist Study of Her Fiction. Delhi: BR Publishing Corporation, 2011. Deshpande, Shashi. The Dark Holds No Terror. New Delhi, Penguin Books (India ), 1990. -------------,--------- . Roots and Shadows. New Deli: Disha Books, 1992. -------------,--------- .The Binding Vine , New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1993. -------------,--------- . Moving On. New Delhi: Viking /Penguin India, 2004. Jena, Seema. Carving a Pattern out of Chaos: Withdrawal--a Narrative Device in Women’s Writing. New Delhi: Ashish Publishing House, 1990. Joseph, Annu et al. Just between Us, New Delhi: Asmita, 2004 . Vol. II. Issue. III 12 September 2011
www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 Kaur, Satbir. Shashi Deshpande: A Feministic Interpretation. Chandigarh: Unistar, 2009. Meitel, M. Mani. “Subverting Phallocentricism, Feminine Discourse in Roots and Shadows” in the Fiction of Shashi Deshpande(ed),RS Pathak, New Delhi: Creative Books, 1990. Pathak , R. S. The Fiction of Shashi Deshpande. New Delhi:Creative Books, 1998 . Sattar, Arshia. “Backlash and Upsurge: The Feminist Multitude”. The Hindu(16 May 1993), XIII Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought, London: Routledge, 1993. Vol. II. Issue. III 13 September 2011
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