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  2. Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri Award in 1990 and 2009 respectively.

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    Shashi Deshpande is one of the eminent novelists of contemporary Indian literature in English. Western readers align her with Anita Desai. Indeed, both writers' work centres around women's lives in modern Indian society. However, only Deshpande lives and writes in India, and she explicitly addresses Indian readers, not the international marketplace...

    Shashi Deshpande – life events: www.bbc.co./uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/deshpande– accessed 21.05.2017 Sissy Helf, Shashi Deshpande - Essay: www.munzinger.de/search/kflg/Shashi+Deshpande/579.html– accessed 21.05.2017 Interview: www.ambainny.blogspot.com/2008/07– accessed 26.01.2018 For additional information please consult the German...

    Deshpande, Shashi. 2003. Writing from the Margin and Other Essays. New Delhi. Penguin. Deshpande, Shashi. 2003. “Why I am a Feminist.” Writing From the Margin, 82-85. Deshpande, Shashi. 1978. The Lecacy and Other Stories. Calcutta. Writers Workshop. Bhalla, Amrita. 2005. Shashi Deshpande. Series Writers and their Work. Tavistock. Northcote House. B...

  3. Sep 27, 2021 · Shashi Deshpande all through the gamut of her ever expanding creative horizon always makes it a point to provide a separate space for her characters. Though Deshpande doesn’t like to be labeled as a feminist writer she mostly focuses on the issues relating to the ‘rainbow coalition of rights, desires, agendas, struggles, victories ...

  4. Shashi Deshpande is a well known name in the field of Indian literature. She was born in Dharwad in Karnataka as the daughter of the renowned Kannada dramatist as well as a great Sanskrit scholar Sriranga.

  5. Dec 8, 2021 · She is the Chief Mentor of SheThePeople's maiden Women Writer's Prize 2021. She spoke to us about her books, being her father's daughter and women writers. You are the mentor for SheThePeople Women Writer's Prize. Why do you think we need an exclusive prize for women?

  6. Jul 8, 2017 · Shashi Deshpande is a feminist novelist supporting primarily the manifesto of the feminist movement of the early sixties and the late seventies of the last century. Basudeb profiles the contemporary Indian woman novelist, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths.

  7. Explore the life and literary career of Shashi Deshpande, an acclaimed Indian novelist known for her profound narratives and social commentary in literature.