EMPOWERING NARRATIVES: A STUDY OF FEMINIST THEMES IN SELECT FICTIONS OF SUDHA MURTY

Indian English novels depicted each and every aspect of human life and we all know how some of these novels revealed the struggle of Indian women to create their own identity, their emotional crisis and their status in Indian Society. Many Indian novelists expressed the real picture of Indian Society and the true condition of women and how a woman is the subject of domestic oppression, suffering and how she struggles to create her own existence. This present paper made an attempts to examine and analyse Sudha Murty’s Mahasweta and Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters from a feminine perspective. Institutions of marriage as well as family which are essential for a community, have been situated supporting encumbrances of sui generis currently. Especially acidulous marriage related pressures are compelling women and stand as nit-picking years in their initial wedded life. Two novels of Sudha Murthy are put to test here: Sudha Murthy’s Mahashweta (2007); Gently Falls the Bakula (2008). How pain in the lives of the two women Protagonists renovate their path of journey towards empowerment that sanctions them a skill-acquisition through chopping and scissoring put on by famous Portuguese professional foot-ball player Cristiano Ronaldo to fight back on wrong-doing which has been showcased here as ‘Naari Sakthi’(Women-Empowerment) of both Anupama and Shrimati textually and pictorially. Sudha Murty and Manju Kapur’s novels are full with the themes of ‘Gender bias’, ‘quest for self’ and ‘Resistance ‘and ‘Oppression’. And also discusses the struggle of the Indian women under the oppressive mechanism of a closed society in Sudha Murthy’s novel “Mahasweta” and “House of Cards”. The women throughout the country struggle to live life with dignity. Women are facing in every sphere of life whether it is employment, health care or property rights. So in India the women empowerment is still a distant dream. This paper completely reveals the violence denigration and the exploitation faced by the female characters in Sudha Murthy’s novels. Women and girls throughout the world continue to experience violence discrimination inequality and poverty and they have laid the foundation of the society but still they have failed to secure the true position in life the reality is that women and girls are routinely unable to claim their basic rights. This research paper would help to create the awareness of strong and vibrant women’s movement comprising of women who are empowered individually and collectively to change the patriarchal norms tackled the root causes of inequality and demand the full spectrum of their rights. The themes of feminism are prevalent throughout Sudha Murthy's works. Although she doesn’t explicitly critique the male-dominated culture, her characters in her stories question it. Her protagonists are from middle-class families. They are obedient, clever, and selfless in their actions.