The image of women in Indian English Novels went through many changes in recent years. Women are taking the centre stage in the novels. Githa Hariharan is a serious, fearless, and sensitive novelist. She has a huge creative output to her credits. She works for the upliftment of women, explores women and their experiences in a traditional society with a deep understanding. Women are leading figures in her novels. The novel “The Thousand Faces of Night” depicts different faces of women’s suffering and portrays the position of women in traditional Indian society. It serves as her inquiries about the old patriarchal dominance over women. She, through her writing, shows what was never said. She presents the internal lives of women. She seeks to lay open the confined social structure of society which does not accept women’s role apart from their conventional role. Her characters struggle for an inner liberation. She deals with the changing scenario of human relationships. Modern women have realized that they are not helpless nor dependent. Her character Sita in the novel advocates women’s autonomy through education and self-employment. The novel presents women from three generations to show that the legacy of suffering is all the same. Although they may hold different social positions; within the walls of the home, they all have the same sufferings. This paper discusses emergence of new women amidst traditional milieu in Githa Hariharan’s “The Thousand Faces of Night”.

The image of women in Indian English Novels went through many changes in recent years. Women are taking the centre stage in the novels. Githa Hariharan is a serious, fearless, and sensitive novelist. She has a huge creative output to her credits. She works for the upliftment of women, explores w...