In India, after independence, a change felt by women was that many of the established norms of the society were intended to check or clip their growth as ‘person’ and not as ‘possession’. Many literary writers raised their voices against this old tradition. In Indian English literature, kamala Markandaya –an outstanding novelist on the contemporary commonwealth literary scene and ranking with Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao –has initiated ...
