Man-Woman Relationship In The Select Writings Of Mamta Kalia

Abstract

Mamta Kalia is a versatile writer with many novels , short story collections and poems. Her poems in English have been brought out in collections like Tribute to Papa (1970) Poems 78 and Poems 79. She was born on November 2, 1940, in Vrindavan and has an M.A. in English Literature. She has been continuously writing since 1960 and has written extensively in newspapers and magazines apart from short stories, poems, novels and plays. But the focus of her writings has mostly been women and their environment. Avery significant aspect of her writings has been man -woman relationship. A few of her English poems and short stories have been selected in this study to reveal the struggle her women characters undergo to cope with the relationships be it with husband or father and sometimes to break up the patriarchal set-up and its traditions, which the Indian middle class upholds with such pride.