“SHASHI DESHPANDE’S CRAFT AS A SHORT STORY WRITER ’’

Abstract

There are many new trends in research and higher education. Indian English Literature is not the exception to this. There are many new literary movements in Indian English Fiction.  Diasporas writing, postcolonial writing, postmodern and feministic writings are emerging speedily in Indian English Fiction. Today, the habit of reading is decreasing. So the writers have got to keep up more to the tastes of audience and their fast paced lives. The audience needs maximum entertainment in minimum time and effort. However, the Indian English popular fiction portrays the tastes of Indian writers and hence can be analyzed as a cultural study material. Shashi Deshpande  confesses that when a reader is able to relate to what she wanted to communicate, even years after she wrote the fiction, it brings immense joy, as for her, literature is all about touching people’s lives. She reflects a realistic picture of contemporary middle-class woman in her writing. The research article is based on fictional art of Shashi Deshpande which creates appropriate milieu for her woman character to express their emotions as they struggle in their respective man and woman relationships  in her short stories and the reader merge his/her easily with any of them. Indeed, Shashi Deshpande is a very eminent woman novelist and short story writer. She has used a fine narrative technique and style to make her novels interesting and realistic.