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Woman’s struggle to find and preserve her identity as wife, mother and the most important of all as the human being forms the major concern of Shashi Deshpande’s novels. Deshpande doesn’t want her writing to be called feminist writing because she feels her novels are not a man versus woman issue at all. She portrayed the new Indian woman and her dilemma in the tradition-bound, male-dominated Indian society. Being a woman herself, she sympathizes with women and her main apprehension is for human relationships. That Long Silence depicts the women world in an authentic, realistic and credible manner. This article highlights the fact that it is not the circumstances that contribute to the negation of women’s rights; but the fact is that it is their women folk who polarize their dig at the emancipation of women.