• Dr. Laxmikant Karal

Shashi Deshpande occupies a significant place among the contemporary novelists who concern themselves with the problems of women and their quest for identity. In her novels she has portrayed the sufferings, disappointments and frustrations which make her novels susceptible to treatment from the feminist angle. She however maintains that her novels are not intended to be read as feminist texts. Although Deshpande’s intention may not be a propound any particular theory, but even a brief reading of her novels displays a tremendous amount of sympathy for women. This novel presents the search for identity, discrimination and suppression faced by Sarita from her birth till death. It is a story about the life of a sophisticated and economically independent woman who is in search of her identity, which leads her to expose the hidden strength within her. It is the story of Saru and her relationship with her parents and husband and also the excruciating discrimination she faces throughout her life. It is the story of a marriage on the edge of breakdown and of a woman who has been made extremely conscious of her childhood. The purpose of this paper is to portray the destroy of female gender in the male chauvinistic society through the character of Sarita by Shashi Deshpande in the novel The Dark Holds No Terrors

Gender, Protagonist, oppression, Marginality, Discrimination, depression.

"VOICING THE VOICELESS FOR THE EQUALITY OF FEMINISM IN THE NOVEL “THE DARK HOLD NO TERROR” BY SHASHI DESHPANDE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.952-954, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002541.pdf

"VOICING THE VOICELESS FOR THE EQUALITY OF FEMINISM IN THE NOVEL “THE DARK HOLD NO TERROR” BY SHASHI DESHPANDE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp952-954, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002541.pdf