A Study of Difficulty and Socialite in Novel of Shobha De

Shobha De an eminent modern novelists and journalists in Indian English literature. She has becomes the symbol of highlighting different perspectives of woman’s freedom and liberation. She conceives extra- marital affairs of women as the stroke to break the traditional and moral values in society. ShobhaRajadhyaksha is a well-known novelist by the name of Shobha De in the realm of Indian English novel. Shobha is a gifted novelist with extraordinary ability to discuss very sensitive aspects of human life tactfully. The way she narrates each and every aspect of human relationship in general and man-woman relationship in particular, is superb. Shobha differs from other Indian women novelists writing in English. She is a writer who believes in very frank narration of incidents and absolute open-heartedness. The present paper is a study of ShobhaDe’s first novel Socialite Evenings. De conceives the extra-marital affairs of women as the stroke to break the traditional and moral values in society. Socialite Evenings is about the journey of a prominent Bombay socialite Karuna, from a middle class girl to a self-sufficient woman. Making a feminist approach, the novel gives us the picture of the marginalization of the Indian women at the hands of their husbands. Socialite Evenings is a novel that presents the institutions of family and marriage existing in the wealthy class of the Indian society. This portrayal is authentic, being an inside story, because the narrator herself belongs to this class. Socialite Evenings is a romantic tale, suffused with feminist traits. An enduring theme in the novel is the image of new women, search for identity and selfhood.