Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Nayantara Sahgal is one of the most prominent Indian writers, whose works are predominant in raising voices against patriarchal society and gender marginalization in Indian writing in English.She is a journalist, political columnist, and writer and her writings advocate women's quest for Self-Identity, Individualism, Interpersonal Relationships, and Social and Political Issues against women.Nayantara Sahgal is a socio-political novelist and feminist writer, the first Indian woman writer to comment on the politics of her times.This boldness and courage of standing against social issues and political upheavals during a post-independent time in India runs in her bloodas she belongs to the rich, affluent family of Nehru and a cousin to Indira Gandhi.Her westernized upbringing and higher studies in America also had an impact on her emotional and mental makeup.Later on her love for and marriage with Gautam Sahgal resulted in traumatic experience.This marriage unsettled her although it was not an arranged marriage and was of her own choice.She wrote candidly about it: ' For the first time I came across the shocking assumption of inequality.A man's ego and ambition, I learned, must be served first...
Authors: Hitesh Rani, Joginder Singh
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7128922286