Concept of New Woman in the Novels of Shobha De

Shobha De is a well-known modern novelists and journalists in Indian Writing in English. She throws light on various perceptions of woman’s emancipation and freedom. She depicts such women characters who break the traditional and moral values in society. She is quite bold enough to discuss sensitive aspects of human life which she does it perceptively. She is quite adept in dealing with every aspect of human relationship in general and man-woman relationship in particular. She is very candid in her narration of incidents. Her feminist approach in her novel brings to light the marginalization of the Indian women at the hands of their husbands. The present paper is a brief study on concept of New Woman in her novels. She portrays a variety of women from the traditional, subjugated and marginalized to the extremely modern and liberated women. Her manner of depicting woman’s issue in her novels is quite challenging and untraditional.