EMERGING NEW WOMAN IN LADIES COUPE

Abstract

Anita Nair is a  postmodern Indian woman writer in English. As a woman writer, she goes deep into the inner  mind of the depressed woman by virtue of their feminine sensibility and psychological insight,which are the outcome of  the Indian women’s psychology and emotional inequalities in a male dominated society. She effectively highlights their problems faced by women  in a patriarchal society. Ladies coupe is a celebrated novel written  by Anita Nair. In Ladies coupe six women travel together in the privacy of a ladies only compartment of a train from Bangalore to kanyakumari. In this Ladies coupe space, they share the inner secrets of their lives. Each of these women has gone through the struggle and untold pains of life which have enlightened them to become new persons. There is a variety of life experiences being shared  here.