LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Dhiruben Patel’s Aandhali Gali
A Psychoanalytical Insight into the Emotions of a Woman

Rajesh V. Basiya, Ph.D.

Dhiruben Patel was born in Baroda on 29th May 1926. Dhiruben has achieved an outstanding position in modern Gujarati literature. She has been given a creditable position in the history of Gujarati novel. She also gave her services as the President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. She was conferred the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award for her novel Aagantuk in 2002. She was also given the highest meritorious award for Gujarati literature Ranjitram Suwarnachandrak in 1983. She contributed in all genres of literature. She has written short stories, novels, plays and poems. Dhiruben is a prolific writer.

Psychological Insight into the Life of a Woman

Aandhali Gali is a psychological insight into life of a woman who all of a sudden decides to marry at the age of forty five. Kundan, an unmarried woman of about forty five, lives a lonely life in Mumbai. The novel presents a picture of happy married life of Paresh and Shubhangi which brings new changes in Kundan, and her approach towards life. But Kundan is disappointed in the end and she is again thrown away into that dark street of life that is-aandhali gali which has no end. The novel is a description of the sensitivity of a woman. According to Dhiruben sensitivity for a writer is more essential than gender, ‘I firmly believe that sensitivity is the first and last requirement of a writer, it is of no importance whether the writer is man or woman.” 1

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Rajesh V. Basiya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
Sheth S. V. Arts and Commerce College
Mandvi- Kachchh 370465
Gujarat
India
rv_basiya@yahoo.co.in
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