• Wasim Yousuf Zargar
• Dr Alka singh

The contemporary Indian women novelists have enriched Indian English language literature. A study of mythical elements in Githa Hariharans novel Thousands Faces of Night explores Indian mythology and reinterprets it from the woman perspective to find a universal remedy for gender relations. India is an ancient country with rich cultural values. The woman India is praised but at the same time she has been oppressed. The conventional role of women as portrayed by many male and female writers of the past. The expectations of the society has been changed and women have representing themselves as real woman beings with equal opportunities, feelings, the fabled myth and legends are reinterpreted. The survival strategies of women of different generations and various social classes are presented. The women in the mythology were considered to be very beautiful and the beauty of them is natural in the novel of Githa Hariharan “The thousand faces of night” the writer has tried to compare a protagonist characters with the gods and goddesses. This paper aims at exploring the portrayal of myth in Githa Hariharn's novel “The thousand faces of night”.

Survival Strategies, Feminism, Identity Crisis, Patriarchy

"Portal of Myth in Githa Hariharn’s Novel “Thousand Faces of Night”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.177-179, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Q25.pdf

"Portal of Myth in Githa Hariharn’s Novel “Thousand Faces of Night”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp177-179, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Q25.pdf