Small remedies: The story of love and loss

Abstract

Shashi Deshpande‟s small remedies like the earlier novels, portrays her middle class female protagonist‟s predicament in a male dominated society. It also enshrines her search for love, meaning and happiness in life, a search for something to cling in the strange world she has perforce to live Shashi Deshpande conjures up a woman‟s vision of life which is expressed in the novel partly through the consciousness of Madhu, the female protagonist, and partly through the consciousness of other female characters. Woman pines for love and understanding in married life. Instead she is made to suffer from fear.