The book is a collection of 22 research papers/articles on the theme of gender from Indian English Writings. It is a critical study of the works of Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Krishna Sobti, Khushwant Singh, Bharati Mukherjee, Indira Goswami, Rama Mehta, Arundhati Roy, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel, A. K. Ramanujan, Manju Kapur and Shobha De. The roots of gender discrimination stem from the patriarchal hegemony of our society. All forms of oppression, suppression, subjugation and exploitation of women have been projected through the analytical lenses by the erudite research-scholars and experts from the texts of Indian Writings in English.  Contents of the Book:   Preface  Notes on the Contributors  1. Consequences of Gender Discrimination in Indian Writings in English by Dr. Bhoomika Thakur 2. Of Bondings and Bondages: Gender Roles in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time by  K. R. Ragi  3. Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting: A Critique of the Gender Discrimination in India by Soumen Chatterjee 4. Empathetic Failures of the Protagonist Jaya in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence by Anil S. Awad 5. A Feministic Study of Krishna Sobti’s Mitro Marjani by Dr. Dipali Sharma Bhandari 6. Gender Politics in Nayantara Sahgal’s Novels by G. Kamatchi 7. Men-women Relationships in Khushwant Singh’s The Company of Women by Jyoti Arora 8. Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine: A Feministic Study by R. Balu & Dr. T. Jayakumar 9. Issue of Gender and Women Community in the Selected Works of Shashi Deshpande by Grishma Manikrao Khobragade 10. Exploring the Gender Perspectives of Repression in Selected Fictions from the North East by Priyanka Kakoti  11. Sublimated Apathies of an Indian Woman: An Overview by Dr. Sumitra Singh 12. Defying Gender Roles: An inquiry into Indira Goswami’s Shadow of Dark God by Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj & Dr. Soumya Jose 13. Self-actualization: A Reading of Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India by Rekha Kumari 14. Acquiring Femininity: A Feminist Reading of Kamala Das’ “An Introduction” by Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury 15. Kamala Das’ Poetry: Some Fragments Shored against the Ruins of a Heart by Sweety Roy 16. Voicing the Resistance: Mahasweta Devi’s The Hunt and Douloti, the Boutiful by Ayon Halder 17. From Suppression to Aggression: A Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things by Ginni Rani 18. A Feminist Reading of Kamala Markandaya’s Selected Works by Jyoti Arora 19. Theme of Feminism in Indian English Writings by Dr. Rachna 20. Gender Issues in the Poems of Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das and A. K. Ramanujan by Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi 21. From Marginality to Centrality: A Study of Female Protagonists in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and Home by Dr. Romika Batra Sukhija 22. Choosing an Alternative Way: Women of Shobha De by Dr. Juhi Gupta