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Shashi Deshpande is one of the most prominent Indian women writers writing in English. Deshpande´s novels deserve the most critical observation; Deshpande, as one feels, is a psychologist by instinct. When Deshpande dives deep into the world of woman´s psyche, it seems that she leaves no part of it untouched. The nether-world observations of human psyche, especially the woman psyche, do not seem to defy the psychological probability. The reader, amazed, travels into the hitherto uncharted regions of the human mind and is left more unminded with the rich fund of knowledge about human nature. Sometimes, the reader is tempted to believe that most of these experiences of her characters are but his/her own. They are so natural, so realistic that they strike sympathetic chords in the heart of the reader, reminiscent of his/her too intimate experiences.

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Kumari, Y. Kusuma
Y. Kusuma Kumari M.A., M.Phil., (Ph.D.) has been into teaching profession for the past 15 years, she has research publications in many international journals to her credit. She qualified SLET (State Level Eligibility Test). She is going to receive her doctorate soon. She has produced fabulous material on Shashi Deshpande´s Recent Novels.

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