Changing and Emerging Trends of Indian Women Writers with Special Reference to Pinki Virani

Abstract

The subjects of Indian Women Writers have been experiencing drastic changes from time they choose to write. Starting from the poetry representing the themes of various aspects of contemporary society of respective periods, touching various literary genres like the major one ‘Novel' presented the issues of Nationalism, Womanism, Culturalism, Racialism, Communalism etc. Twentieth century women writers are more activist writers and are in a position to question and fight for the aspects that encumber the society. Among the writers of this type like Shoba De, Arundhati Roy, Monica Das, Sagarika Ghosh and so on, Pinki Virani is a powerful and dynamic writer who can be a change of Indian social order.

This paper attempts to give an account of the changing trends of Indian Women Writers with special reference to Pinki Virani as an activist writer, giving a few lines as an introduction to Indian Women writings as a whole.