• Jigneshkumar J. Panchal

Indian novelist and short story writer Shashi Deshpande has been researched from feminist point of view by many scholars. The researcher in the present paper aims at exploring the feminist aspects of Deshpande’s one of the short stories i.e. Why a Robin? The paper sheds some light on how a woman’s desire is supressed and remain unfulfilled in meeting the expectations of family. The researcher explores the dimension of a woman’s needs which are at two levels: intellectual and emotional, through a character of a mother in the story. The way a woman is looked at and the psyche of society towards her has also been explored. The paper presents how a woman feels alienated even after being the part of a family regardless of her character as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife,. The paper deals with the sufferings of woman’s life in the 21st century.

Supressed desires, Expectations of family, alienation, suffering etc.

"A Feminist Critique of Shashi Deshpande’s Why a Robin?", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.810-812, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906J57.pdf

"A Feminist Critique of Shashi Deshpande’s Why a Robin?", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp810-812, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906J57.pdf