Women at Crossroads: A study of a Darkroom and Gauri

Abstract

The man-woman relationship has been the earliest of the social relationships.Literature is the inter-relationship between social transformation and creative imagination. The society inspires literature in establishing its various norms and literature in turn reflects the traits nurtured in a society. Therefore, in order to understand a society, it becomes important to study its literary works which give an insight into its culture. Indian women's challenges are different from Western womendue to the historical realities and traditions of India. In India, the individual is typically just one aspect of the broader social community. The definition of "self" in the West is focused on competitive individualism. A large number of many writers have therefore depicted Indian women as suffering women and mothers who are silenced by individualism.Man - women relationship could be traced to the earliest desire on the part of humanity to apprehend its predicament in terms of love and marriage.