Tradition and Modernity in the Select Novels on Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande displays the possible ways, through which the women can escape from the stern nature of tradition. Jaya does that more effectively than Indu. She takes upper hand immediately after her husband’s losing the prosperous job. This fact comes into being when she refuses to handover they key of the new apartment, but she does not dominate him too much. As a cunning modern woman, she knows that her too much of domination upon him will be dangerous to her survival in the family. At the same time she cannot hide the intention of being autonomous and having a respectable identity. This inner motive is common in both the protagonists. At the last part of the novels, they decide to quite the conjugal life as it seems to be the real obstacle for their emancipation. But they do not find in the attempts. Their separation from their respective husbands do not provide enough room to enter in to her aspired life. At last they discover the basic fact that familial relationships are the roots of every woman.