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Abstract
India is one of the traditional countries with male dominated society. In our Indian traditional male dominated society, the condition of the women is the same as that of the women who live in other male dominated societies in other countries. The portrayal of women in Indian English fiction is as the silent sufferer and upholder of the customs and traditional values of family and society. But it has undergone a tremendous change and they are trying to move out of the caged existence and asserting the individual self. They are no longer puppets in the hands of man. Many Indian women novelists have explored female subjectivity in order to establish an identity. The theme is from childhood to womanhood-developed society respecting women in general. Women writers have moved away from traditional portrayals of enduring self-sacrificing women, towards conflicts, female characters searching for identity; no longer characterized and defined simply in terms of their victim status. The womens presentation is more assertive, more liberated in their view and more articulate in their expression than the woman of the past is. The novels of Shobha De depict mental and physical sufferings of female-protagonists and other women characters. She concerns with sufferings of women that finds a central place in the novels. She also mocks on cosmopolitan society and women which marks her ironical attitude towards serious issues. Her autobiographical elements and biographical details will also provide an aid for the study of the paper. She is notable for her understanding of the womens psyche and her bold and frank treatment of sensitive issues pertaining to women does not present womens sufferings alone. Shobha De can peep into the inner aspect of characters with quite sensitive delicacy. In Starry Nights she portrays the persona of her heroine with various representatives of women like Malini-the wife of Akshay, Linda-a lesbian journalist, Amma- a pimp mother and Asha Rani- a rising porn actress.
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