Abstract
Shashi Deshpande, the recipient of 1990 SahityaAkademi Award, penned her first short story collection The Legacy and Other Stories in the year 1978. She started writing short stories at a mature age of thirty to record her trip to England with her husband. Since then, she has published five collections of short stories. The fifth collection The Intrusion and Other Stories got published in 1993 when she was already an established Indian writer writing in English. The anthology narrates nineteen stories of women protagonists. All the protagonists of these stories have one or the other wish to fulfil, during the course of the action; they struggle hard to fulfil their dreams and aspirations. The author captures the touching knots of these women, either young or old, struggling against disappointment, failed love, and the death of their near ones. At times funny, at times disturbing, these stories
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