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Indian women writers like Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, and Shobha De wrote about the exploitation and injustice faced by the women. They throw light on women's frustration and their struggle in Indian society in their writings. Shashi Deshpande achieved an important place among the list of Indian women writers who talk about the condition of women of every class of Indian society with their different social problems in her novels. She also paints her stories with a tinge of feminism that glorifies female identity. In her novel That Long Silence, she tries to present the image of an educated Indian woman through the character of Jaya who is entangled between the conventional roles that society expected her to do and the other that her own heart craves for something else. She lost her identity and self-confidence by suppressing her desires unconsciously over time. This study aims at making an in-depth study of Shashi Deshpande's novel That Long Silence and revolves around Jaya's battle between tradition and modernity and then her triumph after self-recognition and self-realization of her powers and potential. It focuses on the fact that the women should not be a victim, but bold enough to accept the challenges of life and fight with them courageously.