Lack of Familial Love and Affection in Sashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors

This paper studies the novel The Dark Holds No Terrors, where  Sashi Deshpande
explains, how a deserted attitude is kept for a girl child by her own parents and how
that girl becomes a psychiatric patient and permanent sufferer till coming over by
own declaration. Novel presents the suffocating feeling of a girl, who never gets love
from her parents and looks marriage as a heaven on the earth, but after marriage
she  nds dichotomy between her prospect and reality. It is a story of internal and
external distressing experiences of a middle-class educated working woman, who
is a famous physician and working person. Her dichotomy breaks out with selfrealization
and conicts the entire situation. She takes a lengthy expedition painfully with sour experiences
to come over this situation.