Vol. 1, Issue 1, Part E (2014)

Abstract
In Virmati we find the incipient New Woman who is sensible, meditative, sophisticated and desires to carve a career for her. Doubtlessly, to some extent she even conveys a personal vision of womanhood by violating current social restrictions. However, she lacks self-assurance, restraint, and judiciousness. Virmati is not ready to be the part of that social set-up where woman is considered subordinate to men because in childhood her father shields her, in youth, her husband and in old age her son; a woman never earns independence. She wanted to assert her individuality and identity and to live on her own terms.