The present article is intended to explore and explain Shashi Deshpande’s broader vision of the human world in which woman stands as an integral constituent of all that is known as human. What is human, if not, a combination of both man and woman? Human world stands incomplete in the absence of the either. Shashi Deshpande has made an artistic attempt through her literary works to fill up the ‘Big Black Hole’ or vacuum in our understanding of the human world. She has widened our mental horizon to behold the whole truth about the human world. Also, the paper disproves the stand taken by other critics who have betrayed more their bias against woman than revealed their understanding of Shashi Despande’s creative works in particular and the human world in general. None of the critics have ever cared to decipher what Shashi Deshpande really intends to do through her creative works. She is a humanist and not a feminist as she has been presented by critics.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English J. P. University, Chhapra (Bihar)
