• Rajeev Sharma
• Dr. Kulandai Samy

The feminist perspective in the fiction is marked by patriarchal hegemony in the structure of Indian family. In patriarchy, women are colonized, which results into the relationship of inequality leading to injustice. India won freedom, ending colonialism but women in India are still colonized. Indian tradition, through its mythology and religious literature, has presented woman to be the epitome of patience and silent suffering. Restricted to the household chores, she has suffered humiliation, suppression and abandonment. Now, in the modern world, through education and political rights, her lot appears to be improved, but patriarchy has still got its hold in the domestic life of women. They have yet to struggle to assert themselves through self-discovery and self- reliance. Akhila, the narrator of the story, is in search of strength and independence and escape from the responsibilities saddled on her after her father‟s death. She is in search of strength and independence, which she cannot find as she is caught in the daily routine of her life. She would like to look for answers to the questions her life has presented before her. But, she is one of the women who have to struggle to discover their self-hood, their identity. Anita Nair, the writer, uses the device used by Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales. The fellow- travelers in a ladies‟ coupe is the device the writer uses to bring together women from different family background, and narrate their stories.

Suresh Kumar and Leema Rose state (2009), Man centric society shows its terrible face from support to grave (49-52).

"Indian family feminist perspective in Anita Nair's: Ladies coupe", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.925-933, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908930.pdf

"Indian family feminist perspective in Anita Nair's: Ladies coupe", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp925-933, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908930.pdf