The Married New-Women of Sudha Murty’s Novels ‘Dollar Bahu’ and ‘Gentle Falls: The Bakula’

Abstract

The writer whose works we discuss here in this article is Sudha Murty. She voices the ordinary people of our contemporary time. The writers who portray the New-Women characters in the past mostly showed the characters in the light of a rebel who swims opposite to the waves, completely disregarding the tradition, they are often shown as personalities who break their ties and responsibilities forever but these days we can see writers portraying a new-new-women characters, mostly married women who try to walk with both tradition as well as modernity. Often in fiction we see and discuss how work-life and domestic life collide for the male members of the society. Here in this article I am going deep into analyzing the nature of Married- New-Women characters drawn out by Mrs. Sudha Murty. The article will also discuss how the notion of self-sacrifice is exclusively attributed to a particular gender in Indian society. How they thrive through the difficult situations in life when they are implanted to a new atmosphere and how education becomes a source of strength to them is discussed here in this research article.