Being an Indian, Shashi Deshpande has always emphasized India as the chief subject of her novels. Entrenched in an Indian setting, Shashi Deshpande`s novels illustrate the human condition and the individual conflict, which are inherently Indian. Her novels followed a story telling method, in order to depict the essential condition of the common people who belong to the mainstream society. The essential reality of the human existence is also revealed through her novels. Being women she could feel the problems of the women in the then Indian society. Sympathetic to the plight of the women, in Shashi Deshpande`s novels are always found a sketch of the lives and agonized existence of the women. Labeled as a feminist, Shashi Deshpande has pointed out the reasons behind the silence of the women. Her writings appeared as a voice against the tormented women aimed to create a mass awareness against the suppression and the repression of the women in the corrupted patriarchal society.

The Dark holds No Terrors : -The Dark holds No terrors is the masterpiece of Shashi Deshpande depicting the desperate struggle of a girl striving to come out of the folds of the dark patriarchal society.

If I Die Today: - Enlaced with the themes of murder and tenseness, If I Die today is a masterpiece by Shashi Deshpande depicting subtly the problems of the patriarchal society.

Come Up and Be Dead :- The Novel is a psychological thriller by Shashi Deshpande deals with the suicide of a school girl in an exclusive school.

That long silence : -That Long silence is a story about a housewife who is suffering from identity crisis.