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INDIAN WAYS OF INTERACTION CAUSING GENDER INEQUALITY AS REFLECTED IN THE NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI AND GEETA HARIHARAN

The society at large is patriarchal and marriage is a power –relationship between husband and wife. In the traditional set up after marriage a woman loses her individuality but in the present day world woman is not willing to lose her freedom. She is educated, career oriented, enterprising and thus is emotionally and economically independent. Anita Desai and Githa Hariharan proved to be writers of this change. The study brings to light how they vocalize their perception of change in women characters, in their novels through gender interaction. They focus on the identity of the individual, especially Indian woman. They highlight the advantages trans-effecting an identity to solve the conflicts arising out of gender interaction. This article explores in detail the roots of man-woman inequality in India and the socio-cultural reasons for them. It also pinpoints the advantage of having a new self-concept or new woman or modern woman. The evolution of new self concept of a new woman emerging out of a series of gender interactions arising in the select novels of Anita Desai and Githa Hariharan is traced, placing them in the frame work of sociology, psychology, ideology, history, feminism and Freudianism.