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    Shashi Deshpande's novel "The Binding Wine" revolves around the life of Urmila and three other women from different times, situations, and social classes. Major themes are the institution of marriage, rape, and women's emancipation. The novel depicts marriage as a source of torture for Urmila, her mother-in-law Mira, friend Vanna, and sister-in-law Sulu. Sulu's husband rapes her niece, driving the niece to suicide. Sakuntai faces neglect, abuse, and crisis in her marriage. Urmila loses her confidence after marriage and fears being left alone. After Kalpana is raped by her uncle, her mother tries to hide

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    Shashi Deshpande's novel "The Binding Wine" revolves around the life of Urmila and three other women from different times, situations, and social classes. Major themes are the institution of marriage, rape, and women's emancipation. The novel depicts marriage as a source of torture for Urmila, her mother-in-law Mira, friend Vanna, and sister-in-law Sulu. Sulu's husband rapes her niece, driving the niece to suicide. Sakuntai faces neglect, abuse, and crisis in her marriage. Urmila loses her confidence after marriage and fears being left alone. After Kalpana is raped by her uncle, her mother tries to hide

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    Shashi Deshpande's novel "The Binding Wine" revolves around the life of Urmila and three other women from different times, situations, and social classes. Major themes are the institution of marriage, rape, and women's emancipation. The novel depicts marriage as a source of torture for Urmila, her mother-in-law Mira, friend Vanna, and sister-in-law Sulu. Sulu's husband rapes her niece, driving the niece to suicide. Sakuntai faces neglect, abuse, and crisis in her marriage. Urmila loses her confidence after marriage and fears being left alone. After Kalpana is raped by her uncle, her mother tries to hide

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    Shashi Deshpande's novel "The Binding Wine" revolves around the life of Urmila and three other women from different times, situations, and social classes. Major themes are the institution of marriage, rape, and women's emancipation. The novel depicts marriage as a source of torture for Urmila, her mother-in-law Mira, friend Vanna, and sister-in-law Sulu. Sulu's husband rapes her niece, driving the niece to suicide. Sakuntai faces neglect, abuse, and crisis in her marriage. Urmila loses her confidence after marriage and fears being left alone. After Kalpana is raped by her uncle, her mother tries to hide

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    Shashi Deshpande, in her novel 'The Binding Wine' presents the feminist streak to her narrative

    which revolves around the life of Urmila and the three women she meets in the purview of different
    time, situations and strata in the society. The major themes that are woven in the novel are -
    institution of marriage, rape and woman emancipation.

    In the lives of Mira, Urmi's mother-in-law, Vanna, her friend and sister-in-law, Urmi herself, Sulu and
    Sakuntai, Shashi Deshpande brings across to her readers that marriage is a torture for all of them.
    While Mira, under her husband's dominance suffers endlessly, Sulu's husband rapes her own niece
    and agonzses her to the limit that she commits suicide. Sakuntai, all her married life faced neglect,
    torture and crises which left her alone to struggle with her children while her husband married
    another woman. Similarly, marriage turned Urmi from a confident girl to a fearing woman who
    feared whether her husband would come back from the sea or he would be drowned in the sea like
    his friends, she fears whether her husband likes to come back to her. He is not there to console her
    when her daughter dies and she doesn't know how to cope with the loss.

    Sakuntai's daughter Kalpana is raped by her own uncle and lay unconscious in hospital for months.
    It's heart-rending to to see the reaction of her own mother who tries to keep it a secret and blames
    her own daughter for her ways. She is worried if she is labelled as 'raped' who will marry her and
    what would happen of her sister. On the other hand, the rapist is free and without any guilt. Even
    the police officer thinks that exposing it won't do any good to anyone. Shashi Deshpande also brings
    to the fore that rape is not only physical torture, it is mental agony also and it can happen in
    marriage also. Her mother-in-law Mira's poems reveal that how she became a victim of it and how
    much she dislikes her husband for being so callous. She could not say anything to anyone, so she
    wrote them in her diary, but being a woman she could only have them hidden them in a diary that
    existed even after she died.

    It is when Urmila struggles with her own griefs then she finds that she can come over her own
    sorrow by connecting with others who confront even greater sorrows. It is then, that she realizes the
    incongruities of women's predicament in this patriarch world and that in resolving them lies her own
    solutions. She comes out as a force of change that brings a change in the mind set of Kalpana's
    mother, society and the administration who look beyond the taboos and establish entity of a girl,
    even though she jis a rape victim, even though she lay mute in hospital bed.

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