Bharati Mukherjee, Attia Hosain and Githa Hariharan represent the radical change that took over Indian English novel towards the last quarter of the twentieth century. Their woman-centred novels, articulate the rich and complex experiences of the middle-class Indian woman that had been deliberately rendered mote by a society essentially guided by male perception. Theirs is the first effort to break through the hard centuries-old crust of a decadent system that ...
