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Indian values are considered to be the fundamental moralities of happy and peaceful life. Sudha Murthy is a contemporary writer who tries to portray the need of social reformation and gender equality in her works. Her efforts to raise awareness to capture the complexity of female emotions and behavior is remarkable. Dollar Bahu is a popular novel related to Indian family living in Bangalore which represents two distinctive perspectives towards life. The novel shows comparison between two sisters-in-law on the basis of financial status and sound bank balance with piles of dollars. In line with this the themes of the effect of globalization on the socio-familial traditional Indian psyche and the disintegration of domestic relations in India. Sudha Murty has closely observed the drastic changes in the behaviour of young male and female employees of the Infosys Foundation. Most of the engineers preferred IT sector, as it opened new vistas of job opportunities in India and abroad to earn dollars. Dollars may have transformed the lifestyles of many families, changed them from poverty to wealth, but it has also broken up some families. It creates financial and social distinctions within families and destroys peace of mind. This realistic scenario is depicted through the novel, 'Dollar Bahu.' Eventually, the novel expresses the dominant figure, Gouramma's awareness about Indian values and its implications rather than American values.