Riddhi Mukesh Kunjwani

I really appreciate and admire the concept of this self-help book. Additionally, it has wonderfully depicted The categories of people we met in our personal and professional life: how do they influence us and how do we influence them. One would certainly agree that no one is wrong it's just their thought process and our perceptions that create a reaction. However,I feel that this could have been finished in 100 pages. It sounded a bit cliched.

Since ancient times, women are tending to be passive and docile. Because of the oppression in a patriarchal society, they lack in having opportunities to explore themselves. Moreover, considering male dominance, women are less independent, less educated, and at some point, less rational towards themselves and society. Evidently, they are nurtured in such a way that makes them subservient and hence they fail to opinionate themselves which further leads to depression and disengagement. However, as the decades and centuries are passing, we could see a drastic transformation in women. With the various movements in feminism and with the self-realization of women per se about their liberation and potential, they are comparatively less oppressed and less submissive. Today, a woman realizes and fights for her independence in physical, mental, social, political, economic, and psychological contexts. She is no more a gender that is born to be neglected or trapped. The above outlook can be traced in the novel, Shadow Play by Shashi Deshpande, which incorporates various feminist notions from the book The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir. They are further presented in the characterization with the conjunction of disappointment and hope which make the characters even more vehement at the end, which is a new and happy beginning for them.