Vol. 1, Issue 13, Part M (2015)

Anita Desai is one of the prominent women novelists of India, pioneering the rights of women in the Indian society. Delineating the psyche of women she writes about the domestic life, subjugation, sacrifices and anxieties of a middle-class married woman who being within the family is alienated in it. Cry, The Peacock is one of the novels which best exemplifies the theme of agony and isolation in women.