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Sudha Murty being a disciplined and renowned Indian English Writer has contributed to the Indian English literature though her remarkable fictional and non-fictional works. Her works reflect the plights and the earnest issues in the society. She outspeaks the problems of women in the Indian society who have to struggle for getting their fundamental rights of equality. The society which is basically known as the patriarchal one, does not seem to be based on the doctrine of egalitarianism. As a result of it, the women have to suffer and make their own ways in a quest of egalitarian society. The researcher has tried to highlight the struggles, concerns and the quest for egalitarian society in Sudha Murty�s novels �Gently Falls the Bakula� and �houses of cards. The protagonists of these novels, Shrimati and Mridula have to undergo through many difficulties despite of being well-educated due to the domain of patriarchal society. At last the women protagonists of the novels take the ultimate decision of leaving their husbands to empower themselves and try to create the egalitarian society.