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Study on Novels of Anita Desai endeavours to examine the man-woman relationship as depicted in the novels and analyses the ways the protagonists have adopted to overcome the problems of their lives. A study on the novelist provides a fascinating and rewarding experience. Anita Desai is the great artist in the realm of English fiction. A large number of critical article and some full-length studies with regard to the Anita Desai have appeared individually. This study is an attempt to analyse the various woman characters against the background of important aspects of woman life - marriage, migration, motherhood and midlife. In Desai's novels most marriages are proved to be unions of incompatibility. Her fiction is relevant to all times because she writes about the predicament of modern man. She digs into the inner psyche and goes beyond the skin and flesh. Literature for her is not a means of escaping reality but an exploration and an inquiry. Desai writes mostly about the miserable plight of woman suffering under their insensitive and inconsiderable fathers and brothers. Most of her protagonists are alienated from the world, societies, families, parents and even from their own selves because of their individuality. So man-woman relationship brings characters into alienation, withdrawal, loneliness, isolation and lack of communication. Hence, this paper seeks to examine the portrayal of women by these contemporary Indian women novelists in English.