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Shobha De is one of the most famous Indian women writers in English. Her fiction always tries to reveal the character of women. She is a great supporter of open-ended narration of incidents and episodes. She has portrayed the women characters of variety imaginatively in her novels, trying to find their existence, meaning of life, their identity and their unfulfilled love and emotional self. The important point to be acknowledged about her novels is that her novels particularly Socialite Evenings and Starry Nights are full of women characters. The novels seem dominated by female characters having full of crowd. After analyzing her novels, it is indicated that her main concern is on female characters as protagonists. Less is mentioned about secondary female characters. She has depicted the women in pairs and their concerns on their individual happiness and selfhood pleasures. Her novels are based on women psychology revealing the accepted norm that women are jealous and enemy of other women.