Insight into the Role of Women in the Novel Roots and Shadows of Shashi Deshpande

The present paper is an attempt to study the various roles of women as portrait by Shashi Deshpande in her novel, Roots and Shadows. Being an Indian female Deshpande herself plays various roles in the Indian society and she presents her own experiences and minute observation of the Indian women in her most of the works. In the present paper, various roles of female characters of Indu, Narmada, Kamala Kaki, Sumitra Kaki, Atya and Sunanda Atya are examined in the Indian male dominated society context.