This book is an analysis of the novels and plays of Manju Kapur, Mahasweta Devi and Mahesh Dattani. The main focus of the book is the issues and concerns raised by these writers through their protagonists, the issues related to women and society. These writers courageously expressed the pathetic plight of the Indian women in their own woven fictional stories. By doing so, they delved into the psyche of the women sufferers with their sensitive and powerful writing, which had a strong impact on the readers. By digging deep into the minds of their female characters they could bring into their writing an awareness which was already there in their fictional characters. They have very vividly brought out in their writing the perplexities in the man-woman relationship. These novels expressed the hidden strength and assertive nature of their characters. The wide variety of concepts these writers have centralized in their writings include the dilemma women go through with regard to extra marital affairs, the metamorphosis of a female child into a complete woman, the male dominance and jealousy over the intellectually superior spouse, the clash between the male and female ego, search for self-identity, emancipation in their chosen path, the exploitation of women and how they are suppressed in a patriarchal set up, women’s frustration with their identity only by their domestic image, chaos and confusion faced by women due to cultural conflicts, the collision between modernity and tradition and so on. The book discusses the plethora of social issues confronted by these writers and their characters including social norms, cultural restrictions, traditions, marital discord, motherhood, infertility, promiscuity, abortion, illicit relationships, education, divorce, gender bias, rape, sexual abuse, economic discriminations, dowry, sexual subjugation, lesbianism, homosexuality, heterosexuality, and identity crisis – social, religious and national.