Shashi Deshpande is the author of eleven novels, two novellas, and four books for children. Her short stories have gone into a number of collections and various anthologies, and her essays have been collected in a book, Writing from the Margin. Deshpande received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel That Long Silence.
Here are 7 quotes from Deshpande’s books- That Long Silence and The Dark Holds No Terrors that highlight the different struggles her protagonists experience:
