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Feminism is not aggressive in India. It doesn’t expect woman to be a complete rebel and revolutionary instead it expects her to fight for liberty and equality. The past four decades have brought about dramatic changes in how women and men navigate their workplace responsibilities, care giving needs, and personal lives. In modern cultures, since the industrial revolution, there has been a significant rise in social isolation, in the fragmentation of traditional communities and kinship networks. Most of us are living alone, often in big cities, working long hours and experiencing a profound sense of alienation and insecurity without being consciously identified by the male and female bonding. Unlike our Stone Age ancestors,we no longer face the same dangers or lead the same harsh lives, whereas all the same bonding instincts are still in place, and friendship is still a vital part of our lives. Such friendships give women an outlet to share their problems, thoughts, feelings, and triumphs with those they feel a close bond with. Thereby, Githa Hariharan, the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction (1993), her novels emphasis feminism native contemporary issues and problems in the society. In this paper an attempt is made to see Githa Hariharan, enduring the ways and tactics of female bonding in her novel “The Thousand Faces of Night”.