Emerging Concern of ‘the Woman Question'- an Indian Perspective

It has been rightly said that the position of women is a true index of the cultural and spiritual level of any society. The present paper will highlight the concept of THE WOMAN QUESTION in detail within an Indian perspective.' The Woman Question ' is a term that is associated with the social change that questions the established 'essentialist' identity of women and their fundamental roles, that have come to e recognized as the 'normative ' in the social consciousness since time immemorial.

In the present paper an attempt will be made to highlight the INDIAN WOMENS' struggle to establish and develop the social imaginary. Which help them to develop their own identity in the demanding social structure? To give an authenticity to this voyage of Indian women, few significant women characters portrayed by selected Indian English Women Writers namely Jhumpa Lahiri, Anjana Appachanna,Shauna Singh Baldwin in their well known short stories will be discussed in detail to present an Indian Woman's predicament who has always found herself eliminate placed between tradition and modernity.

The paper will also draw an attention that how Indian Women writers used their writing skills as a tool to express their inner private feelings and condition with the society.