A Portrayal of Badami‘’s Women Protagonists as Moons in Tamarind Mem and The Hero‘’s Walk

Abstract

The flavour of originality among the Indian women writers has been ever dynamic and extending due to the wide variety of cultural, social and economic patterns in India. Anita Rau Badami occupies a unique position among the contemporary Indian writers, especially women writers in English. She successfully deals with the struggle and adjustments of the vast majority of middle-class Indian women.

This paper tries to establish the fact that women have always been proving themselves the right cause of success in many families. Though they face several challenges both in familial and professional front, strive through toughest situations and undergo serious struggle, they ultimately emerge triumphant with consistent endurance and perseverance. They are the main reason for the bliss and joy that is established towards the end. With lot of patience they swim across the sea of challenges and blow breezes of comfort and contentment in the lives of their people as a moon does after a sunny noon. This idea is discussed by studying the characters of Saroja and Nirmala from Anita Rau Badami’s Tamarind Mem and The Hero’s Walk respectively. They are also established as moons during the noon of the respective families.