Bengaluru: Award-winning author Shashi Deshpande on Friday resigned from the Sahitya Akademi general council expressing “a sense of strong disappointment” over the literary body’s silence on ...

Author Shashi Deshpande tenders resignation from the Sahitya Akademi ’s general council in protest against the Akademi’s inaction over the Kalburgi killing on Aug 30 Padma Shri awardee and ...

Bengaluru-based writer Shashi Deshpande, author of several women-centric novels and short stories, resigned from the Sahitya Akademi’s General Council on Friday to protest the council’s ...

Arundhati, the protagonist of Shashi Deshpande’s novel Shadow Play, has seen many cases of what the law calls ‘domestic violence’ in her work as a lawyer and within her own home. The ...

HYDERABAD: I am not a feminist, insists Shashi Deshpande. "I am a human being and I write about other human beings who happen to be women," she said. hyderabad: i am not a feminist, insists shashi ...

Bangalore-based author and Padma Shri awardee Shashi Deshpande resigned from general council of Sahitya Akademi in protest against its silence over the killing of M MKalburgi. Kalburgi ...

Shashi Deshpande began her career with short stories, but has since gone on to write children's books and many novels. Her subjects are the realities of women's lives and the truths that lie ...

Photograph: ANI Photo Award-winning novelist Shashi Deshpande-- a native of Karnataka and the legendary playwright Adya Rangacharya's daughter -- discusses the Karnataka election results with ...

In person, Shashi Deshpande will never be heard saying the three words of the title of her memoir. Soft-spoken and self-effacing but with a steely resolve, she has always let her books do all the ...

Shashi Deshpande began her career with short stories, but has since gone on to write children's books and many novels. Her subjects are the realities of women's lives and the truths that lie ...