Critical Studies of Shashi Deshpande as an Indian Novelist

Perhaps Deshpande's best work is his fifth novel, Long Peace. Narrator Jaya, a middle-aged housewife with two young children, is forced to examine her health when her husband is accused of fraud. They moved into a small apartment in Bombay, a poor neighborhood, and gave up their comfortable home. The novel reveals the unpredictability of modern life in India, where success is seen as a simple arranged marriage for a high-ranking husband who accompanies the children attending "good" schools. The repetition and durability of the material life of a materially comfortable woman must clearly, "glassware that was supposed to be shiny, furniture and swimwear that had to be kept spotless and dustless, and those garments, God, all those piles of clothes that had to be washed and ironed, to be worn and washed again. they are re-signed. "Despite being a writer, Jaya could not speak for himself. There is something about the shortness of the narrator's life. The novel contains nothing but the subtleties of the narrator. Indian culture and philosophy (which plays an important role in literary works such as Raja Rao) have no place here. We get a glimpse of Hinduism by fasting a lot of food that women watch for the well-being of men, sons or brothers. Jaya's outrage at such sexual harassment is evident - she obviously feels strong over the mistreatment of a girl in India. The only reference to India's "glorious" past is Jaya's observation that in the Sanskrit game, women did not speak Sanskrit - they were confined to Prakrit, a less polished language, which silenced them. Despite her English education, Jaya is similar to other women in the novel, such as Kusum, a distant relative, or Jeeja, their poor maid. They are all trapped in the peace they created for themselves, and they cannot escape the support but the family. A slight focus on the novel creates an almost painful momentum. All the characters, including Mohan, Jaya's husband, are well-known, though none of them, including the beloved narrator Jaya. Deshpande usually has a heroine as a narrator, and uses a kind of broadcast-awareness method. The narrative goes back and forth in time, so the narrator can explain the events with the benefit of looking back. It would be wrong to call her a woman, for there is no teaching about her myth; simply expresses, in essence, what it means to be a woman in modern India. An example of her worldview is A Matter of Time, her first novel published in the United States: the story of a woman abandoned by a man. The woman is Sumi, who has three daughters; the man is her husband, a professor named Gopal; and his departure compels him to return to his family home in Bangalore. Sumi's problems are not Indian problems; they are all human beings - not just the hardships in her marriage, but the conflicts in her family. H. M. Parshley. London: Vine, 1997. 2) Bhagwat, Vidyut, Women's Social Thinking: An Introduction to Six Main Thinkers. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2004. 3) Deshpande, Shashi. Login and Other News. New Delhi: Penguin's Letters, 1993, Print. 4) Geetha, T.N. "Shashi Deshpande's short stories." In Dhavan R.K. ed. Indian Women Novelists. SetI: Vol. V. New Delhi: Prestige Books (1991) P-170. 5) Mishra, S.K. Life and Works of Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Study. Kanpur: Bhasker Publications, 2009, Print. 6) Mukherjee, Prabhati. Hindu women. New Delhi: Orient Longman LTD, 1978. 7) Nabar, Vrinda Casteas Woman. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1995. 8) Vevaina, Coomi S. Re / Membering Selves: Alienation and Survival in the Novels of Margaret Atwood and Margaret Laurence. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1996, Print. 9) Wayne, Tiffany K. Thinking of Women: Feminism and Transcendentalism in 19th-century America. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008.

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Babu Shobha Ram Government Arts College, Alwar, Rajasthan