Feminism in India with reference to Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence

Abstract

With access to education women improved and benefitted a lot in the postcolonial India by availing themselves good jobs and marriages. But women belonging to well off families cannot play as role model for average women of India. Truly no ‘ism’ is required to materialize harmony and peace in relationships. For, relations get jeopardized as they are aided by legalities. It is possible only through mutual understanding. True feminism will not be materialized and realized unless or until both- man and woman learn to honour and respect either one’s self-respect and dignity. Both are incomplete in absentia either. No doubt, both feel different, work different but both have to get ready to go together for relation’s health and wealth. For the fulfillment of goals and aspirations of women of once colonized countries, they paved the path of ‘postcolonial feminism’.