Shashi Deshpande is contemporary Indo-English novelist who has presented the plight of middle-class women, who are oscillation between traditional and modern roles. Shashi Deshpande was born in 1938 at Dharwar, a small town in North Karnataka. She is the daughter of the eminent Sanskrit Scholar, Shriranga. The novelist has studied in Bombay and Bangalore and acquired degrees in Economics and low, as well as a postgraduate degree in English literature and a diploma in journalism. She is now settled in Bangalore along with her husband and son. Shashi Deshpande started her literary career in the...