Her novels portray women trampled and oppressed because of their dependence upon men and the harrowing experience they have to face in their struggle to come out of the bondage and stand on their own feet. She depicts her women deciding to opt for divorce rather than live a stifling life of injustice and agony. Sahgal shows women suffering in marriage-life and then deciding to come out of the suffocating bondage by preferring divorce.

Sahgal's women characters suffer because they refuse to submerge their individuality and cling to their personal identity at all costs. Sahgal is deeply concerned with the failure of marital relationships, the loneliness of living and private terrors. As a woman novelist, Sahgal recognizes that her primary obligation is that of advocating the emancipation of women.

She is able to go deep into the psyche of her female characters and study them with sympathy and understanding.

Almost in all her novels, Sahgal has gone deep into the female psyche. She is sensitive to the suffering of Indian women and champions their cause.

She has a humanitarian dislike of suffering and inequality. theme of agony and pain of women in thesociety.I have tried my best to make it clear that NayantaraSahgal's journey as a woman writer starts from the search for selfhood and reaches its culmination in the attainment of it. The present study was aimed on exclusive focus onSahgal's major concern in her novels i.e.

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