Emotional Peep in to the Intricacies of Maternal Bond in Shashi Deshpande's The Binding Vine

Abstract

Shashi Deshpande is one of India's most distinguished authors, and the winner of prestigious Sakithya academy award and Padmasri award. In her novels Shashi Deshpande tries to provide the reader with the 'quintessential' woman. She closely analyses the woman's psychological, emotional, and intellectual needs as well as their aspirations, cravings, desires conflicts and catastrophes that they inevitably bring in their work. This paper aims at depicting the intricacies in the mother daughter relationship through the multi-dimensional narrative, ‘The binding vine’.