The Dark Holds no Terrors
Shashi Deshpande ji is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers in Indian English literature.Her novels seriously deal with the genuine troubles,hurdles that a women come across in her life and hence her novels are mainly centered around female protagonists.The novel is a powerful portrayal of one woman's fight to survive in a world that offers no easy outs.In this novel 'The Dark Holds no Terrors',Deshpande ji becomes a ventriloquist when Sarita,the central female protagonist narrates the bleak part of her life and we as readers are bound to fall sympathy with her in this regard.The lines''Why are you still alive....Why didn't you die?'' addressed to Sarita by her mother after her brother Dhruva's death are heart-warming;it is such a painful reality to bear that a mother in a family is so possessive about her son and on the other hand treats her daughter as a burden,almost as a commodity.Therefore without knowing much she accuses her daughter S...