INDIAN FEMINISM AND ITS CULTURAL INTERSECTIONS

The emergence of feminist literary criticism has profoundly impacted twenty-first-century literary studies.A central and enduring concern within this critical framework has consistently been the cultural construction of gender. Historically, feminism has sought to re-position women's experiences as central, challenging their traditional marginalization in opposition to male-centric narratives. This critical approach systematically evaluates the secondary spaces to which women are often relegated within cultural, economic, and educational spheres, examining how such confinement impedes their capacity for self-realization and creative expression. Fundamentally, the feminist literary movement interrogates the cultural identification of woman as the “other”and man as the dominating “subject”.The present paper, titled “Indian Feminism and its Cultural Intersections” undertakes an analysis of how Saroja and her daughter Kamini navigate and cope with the vagaries of gender discrimination they confront across diverse spatial and circumstantial contexts as depicted in Anita Rau Badami's novel Tamarind Mem.Their narratives contribute significantly to a nuanced understanding of gendered experiences at the intersection of tradition and global modernity