latha.T Balakrishnan

Victimization of women and deviant sexial behavior behind the pseudo Indian morality is well crafted. Her transition from ambitious middle class girl to a reputed doctor, the story grips, feel to turn pages and turned anxious. Re entry of Eve teaser in her teens, humiliation of womanhood by her husband and her decision to take life of Desmond Lopus using medical paraphernalia is a new way of writing breaking all traditionalbways. Here the the character Rema remnds Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervellis, leaving the conflict in mind whether the act is not against medical ethics?