Literature plays an important role in creating awareness, by mirroring the realities of life. Novels by Indian English writers begin with the exploration of the fictional contours within which the writers operate the protagonist’s attitudes, motivations and pursuits. They use novel as the effective vehicle to communicate a creative experience, evoking and touching the profound thoughts in and about human life.Githa Hariharan, one of the contemporary women writers of India, depicts the transforming image of woman through her conservative women characters in her novels from the present and post-modern eras.

Oppression, Multifaceted, Conventional Woman, Tradition, Cultural, Modernity, New Woman