• Hampamma Gongadi

The modern woman, though educated, has to face many odds in her adventure of achieving identity, realizing her ambitions and desire to explore herself as independent and self-sustaining individual ready to take up any challenges in this male dominated society. This paper deals with two stories that bring forth the new woman’s quest for her own identity. Anita Desai’s "The Rooftop Dwellers” from The Diamond Dust is a simple story that highlights the problems of an unmarried, independent living, and working woman in the contemporary society. Shashi Deshpande conducts a relentless search to discover the feminine and individual ‘self’ in the title story “It was the Nightingale”.

employees, challenges, marriage, ambitions, self-respect

"Career Women of Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.55-59, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807357.pdf

"Career Women of Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp55-59, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807357.pdf