Shashi Deshpande in her novels explores and exposes the long smothered wail of the incarcerated psyche of her female protagonist imprisoned within the four walls of domesticity and sandwiched between tradition and modernity. These women however disown a ritualistic tradition bound life in order to explore their true self. Shashi Deshpande’s heroines are all curious to retain their individuality in the teeth of disintegrating and divisive forces that threaten their identity. Bogged down by existential insecurity and uncertainty the women in her novels are in quest of refuge which in ‘The Dark Holds No Terrors’ is portrayed by the protagonist Sarita. ‘The Dark Holds No Terrors’ is the story of a marriage on the rock. Sarita is ‘two-in-one woman’ who in the daytime is a successful doctor and at night ‘a terrified trapped animal’ in the hands of her husband Manohor, an English teacher in a small college. The novel opens with Saru (Sarita) returning after fifteen years to her fa...
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